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htmlText_8D37CEAB_CC5B_C469_41E9_6D70967622F6.html = Participant Name : Mangesh Subramanian
Location : Thane, Maharashtra.
Greetings Harvesting is when the farmers expect their hard work, time and dedication they put on fams to be paid off. Their is a harvest ritual in south tamilnadu, before starting the harvesting a small part of crop is hand cut and taken to their favourite temple and offered it to god as a thanksgiving. As advanced machinaries overtook human abilities, rest of the harvesting is then done with harvesting machines. The image was taken while the farmer is taking that hand cut crop to the temple. The farmer is very happy as they got the desired outcome for their hardwork and i hope nature god puts this kind of happiness and smile on all farmers faces. She is my mother, we lived in mumbai, after my fathers retirement my parents built a house in her hometown and when ever they are in her hometown my mother does help in farming in their family land with her brothers in vellalankulam, Tirunelveli. She is not a fulltime famrer whenever she goes to her hometown from mumbai she helps them with whatever she can do. But this image projects a true raw feel of an happy farmer after harvest thats why i am adding this as my entry. Thank you
Paticipant Name : Revan Sannake
Location : India
Through thick and thin, through ups and down, supporting each other as the world moves on
Participant Name : Pavan Kumar
Location : Andhra Pradesh
Rajesh Is A Farmer Who Is Owner Of 20 acres Of Land Which Involving In Production Of Sugarcane and Paddy Yearly. Rajesh Always Believes If We Do Farming Happily Then Farming Makes Us Happy.He Is So Happy In Farming and His Income Is Enough For His Family.He Also Performs Animal Husbandary With More Than 3 to 4 Buffaloes.
Participant Name : Harshad Dhapa
location : Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Bharatbhai is a resident of Nawapara village near Ahmedabad. They provide family support by farming and the canal is far from their farm so they bring water from farming and cultivate paddy on their farm. They are very poor. They have no land, but they provide for their children's livelihood and education by cultivating other people. Since they have good income from farming, they cultivate paddy
Participant Name : Kulzar Ahmed
Location : India
Farmers are the backbone of our society, as a result, a middle aged Mr. Muruganadham and his little son ragupathy joined their hands together in a small village called chinnapappanuthu, near udumalpet, which is located in tripur district. Farmer Muruganadham is performing excellence in agriculture in a dedicated way. He does coconut export and distribution of seasonal farming such us tomato, chilies, pumpkins and coriander etc. He buy coconut from some specific places to export and also he distributed dry coconuts to oil mills in some areas like kangeyam, vellakovil. Farmer muruganadham shares all his framing knowledge and techniques with his son;The little champ shows his interest in farming along with his dad. He used to spend his leisure time in field like by processing weeding nd tilling. Being a 6th standard kid, he involves himself in farming with his own interest rather than playing computer games.Father teaches him to become good agriculturalist in future. In farming he never use chemical manners, instead he only puts panchagavya, which helps in boosting immunity and plant growth. He brings forward many to get in and start farming on their own. Technology is playing a wide roll and it helps his farming very much, he said parents should encourage and let their children learn about agriculture like him, beyond their studies. He is very proud to say himself as a professional farmer. At last farming is a profession, which "hard work and effort". Moreover seeing the growing population of our country people should take initiative to help farmer of our country.
Participant Name : Adheesh Jain
Location : Patna, Bihar.
Women, A beautiful creation of the God! The angel on the earth makes our life a wonderful experience all together. Imagining life without a woman is quite hard-hitting. This angel shakes the cradle with one hand the earth with the other hand. The fact that all the great people of the world are born from the womb of a woman and it is a woman from whom those great people have taken their initial teachings. And that is the reason we have always emphasized upon giving the due respect to women
Participant Name : Pratibha Sharma
Location : Chandigarh.
Being from an Agriculturist background I always filled with joy and Authenticity of all the loveliness of cultivation . So this is the story of Mr. Laxman Dass ,having a 3Bigha land . He is having three children out of which two are married . In this picture he is harvesting Mustard at his farms on a lovely evening .His farms is near to the forest area ,wild animals generally come to the crop area during night and damage to the crops like wheat and rice etc . As the land holdings in the area are small and fragmented therefore farmers can only grains for the livelihood of their families . But with the best efforts and hardwork they also grow cash crops like :- coriander ,Tomato etc. .This area is a very heavy Rainfed area because of this rice &Maize crop production remains good . He also do farming as share cropper by taking land from other farmers to generate his Income . His two sons who do labour work at least nine months in a year are helping him by generating cash so that the expenditure of the family could be meet out . This mustard crop was sown in month of November 2019 .Now it is almost Ripped and is ready to harvest .These small farmers also keep pet animals like cow & Buffalo for milk & Desighee etc . No Doubt these small farmers are trying their level best for their livelihood . I the end I would like to say that RESPECT FARMERS ,The farmer is called father of nation because father used to feed his family by his hardwork , IF THEY GET AFFECTED, WE GET AFFECTED .
Participant Name : Zia Udddin
Location : Delhi
The luscious fruits of relentless hard work, shines so bright, illuminating all darkness within.
Participant Name : Puttaradhya S
Location : India
I was 29 when I started farming under the guidance of my father. When he sets target (field work) on the field, he makes sure I reach the target either by sweat or blood. This picture was taken around father's day.
Participant Name : Mahima surana
Location : Chennai,Tamil Nadu
Women who produce for their families and communities are treated as 'non-productive' and economically inactive. The devaluation of women's work, and of work done in sustainable economies, is the natural outcome of a system constructed by capitalist patriarchy. This is how globalisation destroys local economies and destruction itself is counted as growth.
Participant Name : Ravandeep
Location : Mudki, Punjab
The farmer is the most helpful person to grow agriculture within the country. The farmers grow the crops on the lands for us in village. The farmers of India are the hardest worker farmer from all over the world. They are being always busy farming for the crops by working night and day. They use to work under the heat of the sunlight and also in the rain. they don’t have the fear of any season but they have only the fear that their crops will grow good and fantastic. They use to wake up early in the morning before the sun and they sleep after the set of the sun. They get the best sleep because they do the most hardworking of the world that is farming. They use to plow the land and in that, they sow the seeds for the growth of the crops. By their minds, the best crops are the gold for them. The Indian farmer celebrates all the social and cultural events in a very simple manner. They do not have much money that they can afford the things that are used in the festivals of the socials and the cultural. Besides these, he uses to celebrate many festivals throughout the years like others. In India there are many of the farmers are living that are living the simple life. They do not have such the facility that they can complete their needs. They enjoy the company with nature. Day to day comes the news that the farmers of India are getting suicide. This is the main and most important matter that should be stopped. Why they are getting suicide? The peoples of India must think about it. They can not afford the meals of the full day that is because of that they are not getting the proper price of their hard-working. All the farmers are indeed a very truthful and hard worker. We should respect their work because whatever we eat that is because of them. They depend on the god. The Indian government is introducing many of the schemes that are beneficial for the farmers.
Participant Name : G.Rishikesavan
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Chiseled muscles carved through years of experience, his strength hold this country together.
Participant Name : Sagar Malik
Location : India
From the land of Kheda Satyagraha hails Aravind bhai, a simple farmer. He hails from a small hamlet, Agraji Na Muvada, located in Kapadwanj (Kheda district).. Armed with the responsibility of his younger brother's (three) education, he sacrificed his education to support his family at the time of the financial crisis and started working in Gujarat State transport and continued for about 30 years. In Addition to that, he is a dairy farmer with five cows and one bufalo. Often suffering setbacks due to the lack of irrigation facilities, he has installed 22 borewells (upto 500 ft) to meet the water supply in the farm as the ground-water is depleting. His land consists of 42 bigha farms. Earlier he used to do traditional farming but now he involved his younger brothers in farming which helped him to increase his farm production by using modern farming equipment. They brought a tractor to ease the farming. He struggled a lot to send his children to private schools. Despite so many challenges in his life he remains humble and grounded. To this day, he remains the same, carrying on with his chores with devotion at the same time, being open to and welcoming changes from any corner.
Participant Name : Shaan Pattanaik
Location : Khariar, Odisha
I am Bharat Bakul, a farmer from a remote place Kamlamal ( Odisha ) . The art of farming is a gift from my ancestors which I inherent. Due to financial constraints I still use the traditional methods of cultivation . I am happy though that I grow organic. Thus when I start my day I take blessing from my mother and when I reach the farm land I pray again to my mother land . My old oxen help me a lot in plowing the field and I too just guide them to the act . I start early morning when I need my oxen for plowing the land so they finish before the weather is too harshly warm . I am getting older too but for my old mother am still a young kid who happy see her smile ; like wise all my effort in the farm land is blessed during harvesting so I am thankful to my mother land .
Participant Name : Avinash Pratap
Location : Delhi
When you see a farmer mingling with the crop, it shows the love and respect that goes into making a crop like the way it is looking. Many a times when things don't function the way they should then one realise the importance of love and care. The farmer often have so many responsibilities attached to him that it is very combursome period for him. But the dedication towards the crop makes the result more fruitful and joyous for him. It is certainly a heavenly time when farmer could see the pain the suffering paying for him. He enjoy every bit of it. As you can say when you serve well you will get well enough and that's what it is all about in agriculture where it all depends upon one person and one field to serve a whole family. In India it is so personal that field becomes a family member and when you see it succeeding, it makes you touch the crop with love and care.ption goes here….
Name : Sourav Karmakar
Place : West Bengal
The depicted farmer Satish Kumar, is nursing the fresh grow up Mustard Oil filed at Samaspur Khalsa in Delhi
Participant Name : Sunveshsonu
Location : Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
The farmer from India Andhra Pradesh east Godavari district tatipaka small village, the farmer name suri appanna their is no market on agriculture sector still he doing his job simply farmer is not only a farmer he is like a soldier.
Participant Name : Barsha Laskar
Location : Basirhat, WestBengal
Biswanath Laskar, a small and happy farmer from a small village Barunhat of North 24 Parganas of West Bengal. He and his family lives in this village for more than 300 years and they all are famers by profession.
He learned farming from his father. He had to quit his studies because of money problem and started to help his father at field. He loved farming from the beginning, working at the field, growing crops made him very happy. They had their own farming land but after the death of his father when he was very young, slowly the land got divided and now he has very little land of his own. To him land size dose not matter he grows different tvoes of seasonal vegetables in this land. But that was not enough to feed his family so he started farming at others land on lease. After all this years of farming he gained so much knowledge and with his passion and love for farming he was able to grow different types of vegetable at the field where only paddy and jute were grown before. He has a son wno studies science at college and also helos his father with his mother at the field. He says, If his son wants to be a farmer he will support him but first he wants his son to be a educated. I called him a HAPPY FARMER because though all this years, all this hardship he never forgets to smile. He is always smiling and when he is at the field the smile gets even bigger.
He says, he loves farming and nothing can make him happy more than growing different veggies at his land with his family helping him. He is not a owner of a big farming land nor his income from land is also big but he is happy because at the end of the day he is doing what ne loves. Me is € small farmer growing veggies at his small land with a big smile throughout the year. We can see his love for farming through his eyes. His positiveness and happiness and love and passion for farming made me convey his story through my camera lens
Participant Name : Atul
Location : Uttar Pradesh
In today's situations, farmers are using pesticides and chemicals to increase the yield of their crop. Which is very dangerous for our coming generation, because the use of urea and other chemicals are making our body weaker, so many diseases are infecting us. Our internal strength is going down day by day. So, its important for us to create a system which is more good for our nature and for our farmers. Mr. S.K. Panday is a farmers and know the importance of being a farmer in a organic way. He knows well about the profits of being a Organic farmer. He believes that is all the farms get themselves into the formation of a better nature, by increasing the quality of soil. They can make huge profits even in future.
Participant Name : Rajiv Kumar Solanki
Location : Delhi.
Sonam Tsering is a 55 year old farmer from Sheela Village in Padam region of Zanskar Valley, a sub district of Kargil district. Sheela is one of the remotest villages and least visited place (Coordinates: 33.43176,76.89739) at an extreme height of 3600 meter from the sea level. Sonam is an ascetic solitude, only the environ of his farming, Zanskar, makes him an enterprising farmer. The little known valley— Zanskar Valley, in the North eastern Jammu & Kashmir, comes out from its ice-clad isolation for four-five months in the summer. It is during this period that small farms traditionally grow barley, wheat and peas. Intense sunlight, high evaporation, strong winds and fluctuating temperature even in the summer are the characteristics of the general climate here. During an August 2019 evening I fortuitously came across Sonam Tsering in his wheat field in Sheela village. I was lost in the ethereal beauty of the valley clicking pictures by the second, when Sonam walked into my frame. His suntanned features in stark contrast to the azure sky above him. He was born into a farming family and remembers his grandfather removing rocks from this field to make it arable. He grows various crops between May to September every year leading a life at the margin, eating meager meals. Yet, the lack of comfort never upsets his being, a key Tibetan Buddhist characteristic. Sonam enumerates the Travails that Zanskaris face on a daily basis—lack of roads and connectivity, medical facilities, decent schools, the basics of civic amenities that we take for granted in our urban milieu. I have no answer to his hardship and no words to urge him to have patience. Perceiving my perplexion he says “ Do not worry, Zanskaris endure!” with a grin on his bronzed face.
Participant Name : Zia Uddain
Location : Delhi
Suresh Ram living in the small and beautiful village called Jamuakhaal belongs to the district in Bageshwar Uttrakhand . It’s surrounded by the snow capped mountains where he does farming on the mountains. He uses ox to plough the field. He works alone before the noon after that his wife Tara Devi joins him in the farming. In the February when there is no longer snow they began to start the farming of potato so that they can sell to market in lower part of the mountains and also his farm produces wheat and beans. They don’t sell in metro city because he says I do farming for my people and myself so what I grow here is only for mountains because snow falls life gets tougher than anywhere else in any plain. Beside that he can’t afford heavy machinery and the cheaper one doesn’t work here properly so he uses animal as well as human labor for it. Sometimes his son also joins them after coming from school. That’s how it’s a family who farms
Participant Name : Rathin Dey
Location : Durgapur, West Bengal
India is an agricultural country. Agriculture is “only” 16 % of GDP but the largest sector for employment. Officially farmers are only a few hundred million, but adding family members who help or occasionally farm, as also wage labourers, the number of farm workers is likely to be closer to half a billion people. But how many people would India need farming if it were as labour efficient as the US for growing crops? I am not suggesting it is possible, or even desirable (large, mechanised farms with massive chemical and water inputs) but as a thought exercise? Just four million people.
Participant Name : Satyawan Aher
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra
In the sahyadri ranges of western ghats, at the outskirts of akole, Maharashtra; there's a small remote village Kombhalne . This neglected village on a rocky nest has attracted the attention of the world just because of the Rahibhai’s Seed Bank. "Rahibai Soma Popere" rightly called as 'seedmother' the epithet given by Scientist Raghunath Mashelkar, has recently been honoured with 'Padma Shri award'. Her hard work and stubborn journey from the ordinary tribal woman to 'Seedmother Padma Shri Rahibai' in the tribal community is very exciting and interesting. Around two to three decades ago, farmers in rural areas of the state used to have enough seed bank at their homes. These seeds were prepared in a special way developed from traditional wisdom by household women. After nineties, as the face of globalization changed lifestyle also changed. Over the years, the seeds of house-to-house conservation were being destroyed. Rahibai's house was no exception, she was upset to see this. But in the male-dominated society who will listen in the in-law family. Devoid of education but with tons of knowledge she was determined to preserve traditional yet the best way of preserving large varieties of seeds. In spite of loads of disgrace and humiliation from family, relatives and society, she continued doing what she wanted till everyone’s perception changed one day for her. She has the distinction of conserving and multiplying 48 indigenous landraces of 17 different crops including paddy, hyacinth bean, millets, pulses and oilseeds.The ambitious project of Maharashtra Januk Kosh was jointly undertaken by the Rajiv Gandhi Scientific and Technology Commission of Maharashtra Government and by the 'BAIF'. Under the guidance of the BAIF Institute, Rahibai's work got discipline and direction. She has sold millions of seed puddles up to date. Now, there are around 112 varieties of 52 crops at Rahibhai Seed Bank.The spread of indigenous seeds has become her life & goal. Rahibai received many honors and awards. The BBC has told the world out loud that her work is special, placing Rahibai among the list of talented women around the world. Achuthananda Dwivedi's short film about Rahibai's work received the third prize at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France. When interviewed her. She exclaimed, "This black soil and all the seeds planted in the soil are also honored. Ever since I was born, I have been serving this mother earth. I will continue to do so till I die". Such a heartfelt feeling. It is souls like Rahibai Popere that bring smiles on weary faces when she expounds on the importance of continuation of natural varieties of seeds and not fall prey to false claims of hybrid seeds that promise a lot but delivers partly. Hence its a humble request to all my farmer friends to take the inspiration to follow our traditional yet amazingly simple and logical ways of crop cultivation, so as to make a different imprint of our motherland on the world.
Participant Name : Sharad Iragonda Patil
Location : Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
Every morning of the farmer is starts with this type of golden light. Whole they have no time to enjoy any function but they still work for others.
Name : Saurabh Phuse
Place : Madhya Pradesh
Farmers so called steward of agriculture used to be the backbone of Indian economy,still they are. You can't think a single day without him just like u can't think car or vehicle without fuel.I have Heard hardwork pays alot, but today seen also. Also one request to everyone don't waste food because growing the crop isn't easy. By this photo i just want to show how hard farmers work and i took this photo during mansoon when early In mansoon farmers are preparing their land for crop.
Participant Name : Arvind Sastry
Location : India
Amidst the snow-clad mountains of the Himalayas, to the north of Indus River, 4000 meters above sea
level - lies a valley with the most breath taking scenic view I have ever seen. It is truly like an artist's painting come alive. This beautiful valley called Ulley houses 7 families who are a part of a Buddhist community, perched on top of the valley. Ulley is also home to one of the most spectacular species of cats called the snow leopards. These magnificent cats have attracts travelers and photographers from around the world. Apart from the jaw dropping wildlife and scenic terrain in Ulley, you'll find the simplest and happiest people residing here. We had the chance to meet one such kind man – Tchewang Norbu - on our visit to Ulley. With his smile, worth a million stars, he told us that the locals here have been farming and rearing livestock for generations - making it their primary occupation but due to the extreme climatic conditions, the locals generally balance between farming and running homestays. Even the farming done is primarily for local consumption. They grow peas and some leafy vegetables and to our delight we had the chance to pick peas from the local farm and also carry some on our way back home - enough to last for a few months. Having caught the attention of travelers and photographers in the recent years, this has given the locals some scope to run farmhouses and guest houses to earn slightly more for a humble decent living. Battling hardships of daily life and extreme climatic conditions, with zero frown on this face - Norbu hosted us at his home where we had a welcoming-homely time with his family. He had a sweet family of 5, an ageing mother, beautiful wife and two lovely kids. What left a mark on me was that even living in such a remote area, very little connectivity with the modern world, battling the climate and surviving day today, Norbu had a positive enduring smile on his face.
Participant Name : Hari Krishna E
Location : Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
Mr. Ram Reddy, a farmer from Gangaram village, Sangareddy district who is well known for his experiments in farming. he inspired many farmers in and around his village by his way of farming and producing high hield at a place where water scarcity is prevalent.
By using micro irrigation system he efficiently used required amount of after to the crop.
Mr. Ram Reddy is the first person in his village to grow Fennel which he is successfully growing now and will harvest in a couple of weeks.
He also grows vegetables on the basis of seasons organically. He also develops seeds and gives to other farmers which gives them higher yields.
Participant Name : Kulzar Ahmed
Location : Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Women play a significant and crucial role in agricultural development and allied fields. The proportion of women in agricultural production and post harvest activities ranges from 20 to 70%. Vanitha Natarajan is a farmer one among them. She is from Chinnapapanuthu, Udumalpet. Crops like tomato, onion, chilly etc were being cultivated in her farm,Nearly 200 to 300 boxes of tomato and tonnes of chilly were sent to the market every day from her field. Those vegetable were sent to the coimbatore market. The crops are cultivated based on the seasonal climatic conditions. Few workers from their village were involved in farming activities like weeding, harvesting etc. She also work with them to get yield from her farm, Per day yield of crops from her land is profitable for her. And With husband natraj support much more than other to cultivate on her farming land. They believed that younger generation can change the economy of a country. Similarly, Vanitha Natarajan and village farmers believes that younger generation should involve in agriculture to upgrade it to next level of cultivation of crops with innovation. 71% of people in India live in villages and most of them depend on agriculture. So development of agriculture gives boost is economy.
Participant Name : Siva Nagarjuna Reddy
Location : Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh
While he is entering into the field he looks like a warrior. But a warrior with a tub in his hand. I don’t know what he is going with that tub. He started putting the paddy plants in that tub. After the tub was filled he lifter the tub and placed that on his head. he started walking from the field to nearby tractor and placing all the paddy plants in the tractor. After a while, he sat for a while around 5 to 10 minutes and he started working again. He is working from the morning. The time is going on it is almost 11 am. The temperature is too high almost 37*. He is working as that is normal temperature for him. I am sweating but he is working all the time without sweating. He is working all the time by maintaining a small smile on his face. After a few while I want to know how hard the work is. I requested him to teach the work for me. He taught me and I started working. At first I think it is easy to do but after a while I realized that it is not easy because the soil is full of mud. It is very difficult to walk even without weight. Finally, at 1’O clock he completed his work and went to his village with the same energy and same smile which he has in the morning.
Participant Name : Chittaranjan Nayak
Location : Orissa
Her strength, holds everything together, the farm, cattle, her home and the nation
Participant Name : Ravi Patel
Location : Mandal,Gujarat
This is Nanjibhai from our village .Nanjibhai is about 81 years old but he works like a young farmer .Nanjibhai also driving a tractor at 81 years old. In our village Nayakpur, this is the only person who drive a tractor at such a young age. Nanjibhai cultivates wheat, cotton, millet, and other different crops. He has also started organic wheat farming from traditional wheat farming for the past two years. Nanjibhai has also installed a solar pump system on his farm. Farming is not about doing business or making money for them, but they are interested in it and its passion for tractor .They say that for the better future, organic farming has to be turned
Participant Name : Arun Kumar Marimuthu
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu
A man called as a Gothandan, He is living in a village called ChettiPunayam near to Chennai district. He is very much interested doing farming food products like rice and some other and also cultivated flowers like Arabian Jasmine,Chrysanthemum,China Rose, Chinese hibiscus in his life.
Participant Name : Manish Bhat
Location : India
Buffaloes, plough or tillers,
they all move ahead pushed by hands,
cracked, hard hands
with years of experience etched
Working towards a world with abundance
But their hands,
cracked, hard hands
Have none.
Participant Name : Karthick Amarnath
Location : Aruvankadu, Muthanampalayam,Tirupur
Initial Im A Small Scale Company Owner, The Same Routing Work And Lot Of Tension Goes On,Then I Decided To Do Farming In My Origin Land Which Is In Aruvankadu For About 1.15 Acre Mainly Cultivating Onion And Chilli And Selling In Local Markt Along With My Mother,She Is The Backbone After My Father's Demise.Whenever I See My Land With Crops I Will Be Very Happy And The Result For All Of Our Harwork.This Is The PeaceFul This Iam Seeing Now With Fresh Air And Living With Nature.
Participant Name : Rohit Prashar
Location : Shimla
कृषि लागत में लगातार बढ़ोतरी से किसान कर्ज के बोझ तले दबता जा रहा है। ऐसे में प्राकृतिक खेती ने किसानों को कर्जमुक्त रखने के लिए एक सशक्त विकल्प पेश किया है। कर्ज से मुक्ति पाकर किसानों को सशक्त बनाने का ऐसा ही एक उदाहरण मंडी जिला के सिराज ब्लाॅक के बागवान हेतराम ने किसानों के सामने रखा है। सिराज ब्लाॅक की रोड़ पंचायत के युवा और प्रगतिशील किसान हेतराम ने अपने 13 बीघा के सेब बगीचे सुभाष पालेकर प्राकृतिक खेती विधि को अपनाकर हर साल बागवानी मंे बढ़ रहे खर्च को न्यूनतम कर किसान-बागवानों के सामने मिसाल पेश की है। बागवान हेतराम ने बताया कि इससे पहले वे हर साल लगभग 1 लाख 50 हजार रूपये की दवाईयां लेता था और इसके लिए उन्हें दवा विक्रताओं से ऋण लेना पड़ता था। लेकिन अब उन्होंने अपने पूरे बगिचे में प्राकृतिक खेती विधि को अपना लिया है और देसी गाव के गोबर व गोमूत्र व आसपास की वनस्पतियों से ही खेती में प्रयोग होने वाले सभी आदानों को तैयार कर खेती की लागत को शून्य कर दिया है। हेतराम ने बताया कि इस खेती के बारे में उन्होंने पदम्श्री सुभाष पालेकर से छह दिन का प्रशिक्षण लिया था। प्रशिक्षण पूरा होने के बाद उन्होंने प्रयोग के तौर पर तीन बीघा क्षेत्र में इसे अपनाया। हेतराम ने बताया कि तीन बीघा क्षेत्र में उन्होंने 20 सेब के पौधों के साथ मिश्रित खेती के तौर पर राजमाश और धनिया लगाया था, जिसमें उनकी कुल लागत 1300 रूपये और कुल आय 1 लाख 93 हजार रूपये रही। जबकि रासायनिक खेती में इसी क्षेत्र में उनका खर्चा 6 हजार रूपये और कुल लागत 1 लाख 23 हजार रूपये रही थी। अभी तक 2 हजार किसानों को कर चुके हैं जागरूक हेतराम अभी तक जिला के 2 हजार से अधिक किसानों को प्राकृतिक खेती विधि के प्रति जागरूक कर चुके हैं। उन्होंने बताया कि इनमें से 250 ऐसे किसान हैं जिन्होंने पूरी तरह से रसायनिक खादों, कीटनाशकों को प्रयोग बंद कर दिया है। हेतराम ने किसानों को प्राकृतिक खेती विधि के बारे में विस्तार से बताने के लिए एक संसाधन और प्रदर्शनी प्लाॅट भी लगाया है, जिसमें किसानों को प्राकृतिक खेती विधि के सभी घटकों के बारे में विस्तार से जानकारी दी जाती है। हेतराम का कहना है कि प्राकृतिक खेती विधि में किसानों की आय में किसी प्रकार की कमी नहीं आती है और मुनाफे में बढ़ोतरी होती है।
Participant Name : Allu Ranjith
Location : India
Camouflaged behind the same plants, that a farmers works so hard on, he is not seen. His efforts, his family’s support, their struggle is hidden behind the shadows of the trees.
Participant Name : Rachith Bhat
Location : Bengaluru. Karnataka
Hosachiguru – 100Farmers 100 Stories Farmer is the backbone of our country and we are leading a healthy life because of these farmers only. Today many families who rely on agriculture from their ancestor’s times are sitting without any work. And the main reason for this is not getting a proper rate for their yield, scarcity of workers, natural calamities and list goes on. Now I am going to tell an inspiring story about a farmer from a region very popularly called as “Malenaadu” in Karnataka state, a place filled with greenery. His Name is Ramesh B N, from a Brahmin family, whose Father was a Priest who was not very much interested in Agriculture with 5 acre of Arecanut plantation, 2 acre of Paddy Field with very less yield. Ramesh was having 3 elder siblings, but all of them get separated from the family on that critical stage. So the only son remaining in the family was Ramesh, who had to manage everything in the family. From a land which was giving a very less yield, he did a magic over there with his skills in agriculture and made them to yield a good harvest and he managed to do the marriage of his sisters and he paid all the loans which was taken by his family members all alone. When everything was going good in his life, all of a sudden his elder brothers came to him to ask for a partition of property, stating he is misusing all the money which is coming from land and he is using that money for his wife and children only not for the whole family. At the same time his Mother also died. Using this situation all of his brothers made some false allegations on him, made his Father to kick off Ramesh from his house. Then Ramesh realized that even he has wife and children and he has done nothing for them, all he did was a waste and he has got nothing from that. Then he started to work for his wife and children. At that time he was 40 years old, but he did not give up and he constructed a new small house and in 2 acre of land he started to grow Arecanut, coffee, black pepper. All people from village likes him and his family. He never let the people go from his home without giving something to eat. Now he is nearly 60 years old, still with the same courage, enthusiasm and passion towards agriculture and he is still experimenting in his land. Most of the works he will only do in his farm and he calls workers very rarely. His wife and children also supported him very well. Now he is going to do his twin daughters wedding and he is making his son a CA now.
Participant Name : Radha Swami
Location : Uttar Pradesh
The story of Kashi is different from others as he is a multitasker he knows everything about farming as well as gardening. He works as gardener in many houses nearby together with his own fields of flowers and Cabbage. As he told me his story that, the people who loves plants and gardening but don’t have that much time to work on that they hire him and he only takecare of their gardens and plants, normally he visits twice in a week and rest time he gives to his own fields. He supplies vegetables for local event managers who manage wedding and small functions. He is 55 now but still works hard to and do everything he can to fulfil the needs of his family.
Participant Name : Ramya V
Location : Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
He is a boy who goes to school but much interested in farming. His parents teach him about farming and tel him the importance of it. They are doing farming which has come from their an-sisters and trying to save it. The boy get to listen many things about farming and perform them along with his parents. They grow rice,vegetables, corn etc., and even cattle's for milk. He is being educated even in school and even in farms. His parents are his teachers in gaining the knowledge about farming. I felt very happy that they are trying to save future farmers but its sad to listen that there is no gain in farming after all the hard work they are doing. Its really very great full that i got to see the boy who is studying 4th class is doing farming along with his parents .They are doing farming and letting their children do it only for the sake of people like us. They deserve a lot of respect than any other person in this world. Let us hope that everyone should understand the importance of farming. There is no future without farmer so,lets save our future farmers together by creating awareness about farming.
Participant Name : Vinod Prabhu
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu
I had an opportunity to interact with a farmer and his family on my usual trip to far-off places. He shared his experiences on growing crops. The farmer got excited and was very glad to see me and my friends. He was irrigating for his ground nut crops while we entered his farm-land. Upon our request started sharing his daily routine steps in his farming job. I could see myself the ground nut and bottle guard harvest. Irrespective the weather My comments: The rhythmic sound of the running water welcomed us. I could see an happiness in his face throughout the interaction. Felt for him when is shared his difficulties like manpower shortage and water scarcity, but he shared his smart and combined plans to tide over the testing times.
Participant Name : Radha Swami
Location : Uttar Pradesh
It's a myth that working woman’s lives in metropolitan cities only, to experience the hard work of a woman of village we need to visit and watch working a wife of a farmer. The attached pictures peacs in itself, watching a farmer and his family working in the field will give you all the feelings I want to write.
In that picture the farmer Pratap working with his wife in the tomato field selecting the best and rejecting the dud ones. The place where pratap do his farming is in mirzapur and in between the two mountains so its uncut the time of monsoon so it's difficult hot him to choose the crop for farming as the land cannot be used at the time off lood so he has very limited crops to choose from, he grows tomato’s and Mustard at most of the time.
Farmers give us food grains and it's the source of our living they really deserve to called as heroes of nation and deserve to be called JAI JAWAN JAI KISAN.
Participant Name : Rathin Dey
Location : Durgapur, West Bengal
India is an agricultural country. Agriculture is “only” 16 % of GDP but the largest sector for employment. Officially farmers are only a few hundred million, but adding family members who help or occasionally farm, as also wage labourers, the number of farm workers is likely to be closer to half a billion people. But how many people would India need farming if it were as labour efficient as the US for growing crops? I am not suggesting it is possible, or even desirable (large, mechanised farms with massive chemical and water inputs) but as a thought exercise? Just four million people.
Participant Name : Siddharth Pingle
Location : Palghar, Maharashtra.
While one of the fellow farmers was showing me around he introduced me to the boy named “ Ajit Padwale” who was the son of the owner of the farm. I was amazed how happy he was when he got to know that I will be taking pictures of him doing farming and while clicking pictures he was so shy that he smiled throughout the session. Then the farmer who introduced me to ajit told that Ajits father was no more and he had to leave the school and help his family to manage the farm and the household work. I was shocked at the moment and just thought of the happiness and that cute smile on his face despite so many ups and downs in his life. I just got inspired by him. When I asked him” Hey Ajit, What do you think about you doing farming?”. He replied “ Nothing comes to mind, as I see my mom, my sister and my brother doing the same thing and I also have to do the same thing”. And he added “ what will we eat if we do not do this?”. I just nodded my head and said “Yes, That's absolutely right”. I passed him, by giving him good wishes for this season for good growth of crops and showing him his good pictures.
Participant Name : PALPANDI.D
Location : Theni, Tamil Nadu.
dingugul (district) achivement former in "Transgenter leelavathi amma" 60 years old and agriculture in the 45 years experience in the village of errampatti
Paricipant Name : Angara Sridhar
Location : Andra Pradesh
As a part of the farm dost competition, I started on my bike to meet farmers. After reaching nearly 20 kilometers finally, I find one farmer who was working on farm. Slowly I stopped my bike and started a conversation with him by introducing myself. Our Godavari region was the rice bowl of our state Andhra Pradesh. Most of the farmers in our area grow three crops a year. Truly I don’t know anything about farming, so I decided to learn about farming along with clicking the pics. After shooting me with a lot of questions he introduced himself as polisetty Venkata Apparao, from the village called kamshala bethapudi. The farm which he was working, took a lease from its owner. He and his family truly dependent on the income generated on that farm. I started discussing the basics of farming. Many topics came to our discussion related to farming. There is one question that hunting me from childhood, why most of the farmers in India are committing suicides? the same question I asked him, he replied that most of the farmers in India don’t have enough money to start farming, so they are depending on the creditors and bankers. unfortunately, because of natural calamities, uneven rainfalls and also sometimes due to the lack of water most of the crop was spoiled in the middle of the crop life cycle. Again, to pay the credits they are lending the money from private people. Due to this most of the farmers committing suicides due to the heavy losses and pressure from creditors. Even the government subsidy was not yet fulfilling even 20% of their investment. By god grace, even if the crop came to their hands successfully, they are losing, due to the middle man and rice millers. Ultimately farmers were losing weather the crop was a success or failure. After an hour of discussions, I shot him with my camera and took a selfie with him. After return back home I realized that “farm dost “designed this competition not just to click a pic, they want to teach us the efforts of farmers to this world through this photography competition. Whether I win or lose in this competition it doesn’t matter, but by the end of the day, my respect for farmers was doubled. Thank you so much farm dost for this wonderful competition.
Participant Name : Bhargavi
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra
Meet Mr kundlik Raut, who started actively doing farming since three years, but has experience worth of a life time. He previously worked under big scale farmer and was a care taker of his land, he learnt a lot under their guidance but wasn’t earning much, because of which he had to quit, take a risk from stable income and start something of his own. He started farming because he was really passionate about it, as farming is expensive he started out with growing vegetables, he keeps switching between rice and vegetables, but mostly vegetables as he finds it hassle free. He talks about how the help of his wife, was very pivotal in his journey, without her love and support he wouldn’t be successful at all, he even says she is the backbone of his farm, even in his absence she manages to take care of the land, and is a solid partner when it comes to managing the home as well. He doesn’t use much machines or advance technologies as he doesn’t have that kinda money for it, nor does he preach modern farming, he spoke about how traditional farming is the ideal form of farming, and that should be the only way to do farming. There is more profit in growing cereals or vegetables he says as its cost effective and doesn’t require much work, in growing rice, water plays an important role, and that can go wrong. As pesticides he believes in making his own customised fertilisers and pesticides he uses cow dung and plant waste. He spoke his heart out when he mentioned how farming changed his life, how it made him happy, how it gave him a purpose to live, because of lack of education and guidance there was no scope of employment and survival was getting impossible day by day, farming was his survival kit, he knew he had the potential and can do hard work, but it was a phase in his life when he he had no hope, farming added meaning to his life, and made him a better man, he feels good about himself now because of farming. He is very grateful to farming. He loves taking care of his land, he treats it like his first priority, he loves waking up to his green land, people who pass by his land, ask him what fertilisers he uses, but he replies it’s not fertilisers its attention and love and pure hardwork, that gets him such results. He says you have to take farming seriously, its not something you do in your free time, you certainly have to dedicate you time and energy to it. He says his days starts by looking at his farm as it makes him happy and positive and he finds there is no better way to start your day than looking at something you love and work so hard for. He told us about his future plans of owning a tractor and he is working hard for it. He is truly a hero and a visionary who we can take great inspiration from.
Participant Name : Rathin Dey
Location : Durgapur, West Bengal
India is an agricultural country. Agriculture is “only” 16 % of GDP but the largest sector for employment. Officially farmers are only a few hundred million, but adding family members who help or occasionally farm, as also wage labourers, the number of farm workers is likely to be closer to half a billion people. But how many people would India need farming if it were as labour efficient as the US for growing crops? I am not suggesting it is possible, or even desirable (large, mechanised farms with massive chemical and water inputs) but as a thought exercise? Just four million people.
Participant Name : Salonee Parikh
Location : India
It was so early in the morning that the sun had not risen and the birds had not woken up. I was sleeping in my room on the first floor with the wonderful family of farmers when the silence quickly turned into vessels making noise, discussions of humans and seeoffs to their younger ones. I suddenly woke up to see what had happened. And, at 4 in the morning I found all the beautiful farmer couples moving ahead towards their farms with vessels and farm equipments in hand. When we in the urban localities are talking deep sleep, the real India is ready for work. It was 8 in the evening when they came home, tired of the hard work whole day under the sun. But, faces still glittered with smile seeing their children. She cried, " Pappa, please bring me sweets. Now, now, now. ". She was just 10, and the star of her dad's eye, so happily he went to the market to sell the carrots they had dug out of the ground today, so that he would in return get some money to bring sweets. But, those decked up shops of sweets were more than his reach, so he brought a dozen bananas, because it was only that he could afford. She saw them, jumped and hugged her dad, because at last, bananas are also sweet and that matters. My family once came to visit me in between the two months I am here at the village. I informed the family I am living with. My family hasn't yet arrived but the preparations for welcoming them has begun already. Famous snacks being ordered, new mugs for tea being cleaned and everyone ready in the best of theirclothes. Yes, hair being washed becsuse it was Sunday and Sunday is for washing hair. The car arrived and the whole society jumped out of home in excitement to welcome the people whom they have never seen before, ones who have no personal relations with them, and no future deals going to happen between them either. No motives behind. Just pure humanity. At last, my family and me had diamonds in eyes observing what real India is and how big hearts of people are although their pockets aren't. And then I remembered, Gandhiji, the father of our nation had also said, " Life of the farmers working hard under the sun, sweating whole day is the real life. "
Participant Name : Rajnandan Omkar Chaurasiya
Location : Mumbai, Maharastra
This short documentary is about a young farmer who is pursuing Bachelors in Technology. Situated in Jaunpur, a small village near Varanasi,Utter Pradesh. It portrays on how the said man runs his farms as well as his studies simultaneously. Known as the "B-tech farmer" of his college, he tries to find a balance between his occupation and studies. A very enthusiastic farmer who wants to share his knowledge of farming with the city dwellers of India.
Participant Name : Rohit Prashar
Location : Shimla
High or low, wherever you go, you can see him
Participant Name : Bhargavi
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra
Meet Mrs Jayshree Lashkare a farmer from Bhivpuri Camp in Karjat, Maharashtra. She started farming in the year 2002, she was really passionate about farming since she was living with her parents before marriage, she continued with farming after marriage with the help of her husband. She believes in traditional farming, and they practise traditional farming on her farm for the preservation of land in the long run, In conversation with her I got to know a lot about how much hardwork goes into farming, no wonder they are so fit, but the love for farming has kept them happy and satisfied despite all the hurdles, she wants her son to join farming and feed people, as she believes there is no better karma than serving food and being responsible for someone having food on their plate, she being the bread earner, there is great responsibility on her shoulders and she has to manage both home and farm, she is a superwoman, who inspires me in so many ways, inspires me to be independent, and strong! She gave credit to her husband as he is her source of motivation and support, he helps her in chores as well as on the farm, he is equally passionate about farming, and they are the example of a power couple. She spoke extensively about feeling left out and being marginalised and repressed as the farming culture doesn't receive as much attention as it should, our problems are not addressed, she expects the government to involve them in decision making, she also talks about how due to lack of education its tough to keep up with today's market. She started out rice and is still producing rice as her main crop because of the availability of water, rice yields great profits too, throughout her years of experience rice has been her number one preference. She uses fertilisers as in her opinion its essential for the health of the crop, and even pesticides time to time to maintain the farm in its best way, she further talks about healing period as she feels the soil needs some rest, some time off and we all need in our life, soil has to gain its fertility back for the next season. She has switched to using the tractor as using animals even though is ideal is very costly and time consuming. In conclusion she says that there aren't enough farmers, we need more youth in this industry to teach us advance technology and in return we can teach them what we know through our experiences, she wants to continue doing farming as that gives her satisfaction and makes her happy from within.
Participant Name : Manoj Choughule
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra.
He is B.SC. Graduate new generation boy. He helps his family in a farm field. He taking care of his animals. He believes farmer and farming is most important part of our country.
Name : Harshad Dhapa
Place : Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Bharatbhai is a resident of Nawapara village near Ahmedabad. They provide family support by farming and the canal is far from their farm so they bring water from farming and cultivate paddy on their farm. They are very poor. They have no land, but they provide for their children's livelihood and education by cultivating other people. Since they have good income from farming, they cultivate paddy
Participant Name : Sachin VS
Location : Palakkad, Kerala
Mr. Jonnala Vemana Reddy is from Namburu village, in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh, India. He continues farming even in the present scenario where many farmers feel that farming is not profitable anymore, Due to pests and diseases, stagnation of crop yields, shortage of labor and high cost of cultivation. His son Jonnala Gangadhara Reddy has been passionate about agriculture since his childhood. So he was helping his father and they work together. He's come through towards farming made Vemana Reddy work in his age of seventies. While working he sings folk songs to make the co-workers more energetic and active in the field. Even though he faced many hardships at this time, he did not quit farming. He continued because he strongly believed that farming would never fail him if he worked hard and with devotion.
The main crops, Which he cultivated there are millet, green gram, corn, and paddy. Vemana and Gangadhar are like friends more than a father and son. After his son married his wife also joined the crew and they all work together. So they save money, which goes for labor charges. He hopes his grandchildren would also show interest in farming like his son.
Participant Name : Shurthi Kamath
Location : Karnataka
This is the story of Anjappar who lives in Hosur, Karnataka, India. He lives in a small hut with his Family, amidst the fields of bright marigolds and fresh vegetables, Most of his land has been utilized for his crops. His crops also include vegetables like beetroot, beans, cabbage, tomatoes, ridge gourd. He also has some cattle. He uses traditional methods like drip irrigation for his crops. I was feeling how lucky he is to wake up to such a beautiful view of such bright flowers and fresh air. But things are not as easy as they look. Sometimes farmers also face failure in their crops due to climatic conditions and they often don't get the correct price for their goods and for the effort they put to grow it. He was explaining that to grow the marigold or vegetable he has to collect the seeds and dry it for 3 months then he has to use it for next yield. It takes him 3 months to grow 1 vegetable. He has a dream to educate his grandchildren and use modern and effective techniques in his farming. When I told this farmer about this program of 100 farmers and 100 stories and I wanted to write a story about him, I could see an innocent smile on his face and a proud feeling that someone has appreciated his work. By this story I would like to convey the message that whenever we waste food, we should remember how much effort was there behind getting that food. The financial condition of many farmers in our country is bad, each one of us should take initiative and do our bit as a gesture to those who give us our daily meal. I want to be a FarmDost and do my bit to show a gesture to these farmers. This farmer had grandchildren and I had got some snacks for those kids and they were so happy. It gave me a strange feeling of happiness and peace of mind. I then decided that from now, on special occasions like birthdays, instead of wasting money on parties, I can visit such farmers talk to them and give them something which will be useful for them
Participant Name : Ram Kumar S Raja
Location : Aruvankadu,Muthanampalayam,Tirupur
I'm proud to be a formers on formers equality in good because our save to the all over society people.
Forming is a biggest job in society every day to day thanks once to the former our forming a quality food is helping to me a every person. Former is also undeveloped in a society daily our facing many struggle in our life is more than important our everyday collaboration in ourland. Thanks to the all over former.
Participant Name : Rishi Patel
Location : Vadodara, Gujarat
Despite being from the small village called Antoli, I grew up with some comfort and modern lifestyle. This lavish lifestyle is just because of my father and our land. I grew up watching and admiring how much efforts my father put behind the farms. His passion and attitude behind the farming is just enormous. Sometimes I saw him tired, exhausted and disappointed But like all other farmers despite ups and downs he never gave up.
One day I asked him how much this farms meant to you?
His answer was so inspiring and wise. He said, when your grandfather died I was just a boy with be low park now ledge and less sincerity towards life. All I had was this farms and family to look after. I learnt many things from my father and these farms. This land and farms taught me how to survive and how to get up from the fall. If you keep on hoping and putting your efforts in the right direction, you will definitely taste the success. Because of any circumstances or bad experience sometimes we felt lost and disappointed but at that time without losing patience and hope keep on going is the best less on that I taught from this land. The first rain after the long wait or watching your crops waving in the wind is the feeling which is just in comparable. He said whatever we are today is just because of this land and efforts of our ancestors, so we should thankful to them. Those words are so much inspiring that I got pumped when I remember them.
India is "Krishi Pradhan Desh(Agricultural Country )but in many ways the farmers are suffering the most, this is cruel reality and irony that the most important people of the country are suffering the most. But despite all the problems and inconvenience they keep on going and hoping because they have a family to look after. We are blessed with many types of food but behind that there is sweat of a farmer. They deserve all kind of respect and admiration for their efforts. I am very thankful and cannot be more proud that I belong to the farmer family.
In winter's freezing chill or summer's scorching heat,
The farmers works day and night so the world can eat.
Participant Name : Mahesh Appaya Sutar
Location : Gadhinglaj, Maharashtra.
Agriculture is the soul of India, and not once many times told by barrister and mahatma - Gandhiji. Agriculture is the major element for the human’s survival. But in the sixties, the Green Revolution born and got viral, and it began to inflict a chemical attack on this soil. As it has taken a good time to realize, the need of organic farming for the survival of the fittest. Organic farming is becoming the most needed thing for our people and families being healthy and sustain without diseases. With a great inspiration a man who was settled and was doing great in such a field where someone else can take a longer period and can’t make himself to leave that field because of money, power and respect but Ajay Magadum from Belgundi decided to quit his practice as a lawyer from the Mumbai High Court and took the decision to grow the 'gold' from his farm using all the right techniques of Organic Farming. Bought few Desi cows grown with natural feedings, used their waste as an organic material for antiperspirant for his crops. He used to spread that antiperspirant through and the water. They had grown a perfect sugarcane as a organic crop and with various green vegetables in same manner. And to share the good quality organic raw food for society, they entered into market with a brand 'Magdum Naturals'. It has been 3 years until now, they have maintained the perfect techniques of organic farming and not only he is satisfied but all the people and buyers there too. The best thing is happening today for them is the texture of soil has improved. Earthworms are forming and it’s a best sign of organic and natural things. It’s a great pleasure for all and we can see it on Ajay Magdum’s face as well, that getting all the natural and healthy environment back in original form.
Participant Name : Valarmathi
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Mr.Subramaniam who had worked as teacher aspired to become an agriculturalist after his retirement. He is a person who dells on nature and shower love on all living being. After his retirement he purchased a barren land within his budget and started nourishing the soil with natural manure. Over the years birds started visiting his farm and now thousands of endangered sparrows home at his land due to millet farming in organic way.
Participant Name : Nikhil V P
Location : Malappuram, Kerala.
Those hands were working for hours. Each drops of their sweat delivers something for our stomach. to realize this point, you just had to be there on the field, looking against the sun, and a heart filled with a resistance against giving up. it was a walk to my roots.
Participant Name : Lakshmiprasad S
Location : Maski, Karnataka.
I saw a photography contest in newspaper article to shoot farmers and tell the story behind that photo and asked my friend to help to take the picture of farmer, as he knows one person called Saleem Bhai, he talked with him on phone and we met him, as we both already know him asked for a photo and explained the reason why we need to photograph him.
One morning we planned to shoot in farm, As everyday morning he goes to deliver a milk from home to home and directly he came with milk bottles and as a prop he also brought Scythe, we went for shooting, First we went for paddy field, as this this year due to good rainfall 2 crops hence he is happy hence, he gave pose in smiling to camera we took some shots and moved on to filed where we found onions seedlings.
As this is not Saleem’s farm, but interesting thing is due to high price of onions this time the farmer (the owner of onion land) got bumper price and he was made profit and able to pay all his debts, but before onion crop he did silk warm farming in sad expression he told due to some disease silk warms dying before turning into the pupa or cocoons and he tried four times but result was same, he also showed us warehouse which he invested more then 1 lakhs plus buying silkworm eggs he was in debt but due to spur in the price of onion help him get out from debt mean while he also allowed us to take some photos but he don’t want us to take his picture, hence I have already took some photos of Saleem as he was busy in seeing the onion seedlings.
After this we are in search of one more concept to shoot in the field, as Saleem was in hurry due to some work he told us while on the road take some photos so we are returning to home, we are in search of one more concept to shoot on road and suddenly I saw shepherd man busy in rearing sheeps as we asked for photo he allowed to us to taka a photo but not him, again out Saleem Bhai know how to rear a sheep hence he become shepherd man we took some photos and returned to home by thanking to Saleem.
Participant Name : Prithviraj Patil
Location : Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
In Maharashtra especially after rainy season farmers grow crops like Paddy,Soybean,Jowar. When there is Rabi season farmers who doesn’t have any irrigation facilities they take Jowar crop for food grain and fodder. For this crops no chemical fertilizers, insecticides or pesticides are used. Nowadays this chemical free food grain have a great demand in market. By selling this food grains in local market farmers are earning good money for their family welfare as well as fodder has great demand in dairy industry because of that fodder also gets good money Mr. Ramdas Kamble is a farmer and his whole family from his ancestors are into farming. At present Mr.Ramdas has cultivated Jowar crop in his farm and he takes every possible efforts to work daily in his farm for his family. He says that 'Farmers are the people who feeds the nation and if farmers stops farming then it will be the end of the world !".
प्रतिभागी नाम : मुकेश धाकेर
स्थान : चित्तौड़गढ़, राजस्थान
चीर के ज़मीन को उम्मीद से बोता हूँ!! किसान का बेटा हूँ, चैन से सोता हूँ !! यह कहना है युवा और जोशीले किसान नारायण लाल धाकड़ का। राजस्थान के चितौरगढ़ जिले के एक छोटे से गाँव, जयसिंहपूरा के निवासी 20 वर्षीय नारायण खूब आगे तक पढ़ना चाहते है, लेकिन पढ़-लिखकर भी वे खेती-किसानी ही करना चाहते हैं। साथ ही देश भर के किसानों को आत्मनिर्भर बनाना उनके जीवन का लक्ष्य है, जिसकी शुरुआत वे तकनीकी के सहारे कर चुके है। खेती-किसानी से नारायण का नाता अपनी माँ के कोख़ से ही जुड़ गया था। नारायण का अभी जन्म भी नहीं हुआ था। उनकी माँ सीता देवी 5 माह की गर्भवती थीं, जब नारायण के पिता का दिल का दौरा पड़ने के कारण स्वर्गवास हो गया। नारायण की दोनों बड़ी जुड़वाँ बहनें उस समय मात्र 2 साल की थीं। ऐसे में इस परिवार पर मानों दुखों का पहाड़ ही टूट पड़ा। पर सीता देवी ने हिम्मत न हारते हुए, अपने पति के खेत की पूरी ज़िम्मेदारी अपने कन्धों पर उठा ली। खेती में लेबर की समस्या हमेशा से ही रही है, यहाँ भी थी। ऐसे में नारायण की माँ, गर्भावस्था में भी दोनों बच्चियों को साथ लिए खेतों में मज़दूरी करती। नारायण के जन्म के बाद, इस दूध-मुँहे बालक को लिए वे काम करती रहीं। धीरे-धीरे समय बीता और नारायण इतना काबिल हो गया कि खेतों में अपनी माँ की मदद कर सके। “मैंने 12-13 साल की उम्र से ही माँ के साथ खेतों में काम करना शुरू कर दिया था। मेरे पिताजी की 7.5 एकड़ ज़मीन थी, जिसकी उपज हमारे छोटे से परिवार के लिए काफ़ी थी, लेकिन खर्चा बढ़ता ही जा रहा था! अपनी पढ़ाई के साथ, नारायण नियमित रूप से अपनी माँ का खेती में हाथ भी बंटाने लगे। बारहवीं की पढ़ाई पूरी करने के बाद उन्हें लगा कि खेती ही उनका जीवन है और इसलिए उन्होंने निर्णय लिया कि आगे की पढ़ाई वे पार्ट टाइम करेंगे ताकि खेती को ज़्यादा समय दे सके और अपनी माँ को ज़्यादा आराम भी! नारायण ने खेती किसानी में बोहत नवाचार किये जिसमे नए कृषि यन्त्र बनाना खरपतवार हटाने के यंत्र और नीलगाय भगाने के लिए मशीन और खेती में अपने फार्म पर बोहत सारे नए प्रैक्टिस 3G कटिंग, फसल इंटरक्रॉपिंग, ऑर्गेनिक में प्लाट ग्रोथ के लिए सोयाबीन टॉनिक, चूहा नियंत्रण के लिए सीमेंट का प्रयोग एवं अन्य नवाचार की है इन्होंने सोशल मीडिया से किसानों तक आपने प्रयोग पहुंचाने के लिए युटुब का सहारा लिया जिसमें 5 लाख किसान भाई इनको फॉलो करत है! नारायण जी युवाओं को बताते है कि ग्रामीण क्षेत्र के युवाओं को शहर में नौकरी करने के बजाए कृषि को हाईटेक किया जाए तो इसमें बहुत अच्छी इनकम प्राप्त कर सकते हैं! इसके लिए हमें अपने खेत को प्रयोगशाला बनाना होगा और नए नए प्रयोग करना होगी तभी हम इसमें संभव होंगे, नारायण जी के इन प्रयासों को देखते हुए अनेक संस्थानों ने पुरस्कृत किया जिसमें मेवाड़ फाउंडेशन और कृषि विभाग राजस्थान सरकार शामिल है, यह युवाओं के लिए एक प्रेरणा स्त्रोत बने हुए हैं!
Participant Name : Shrikant Gorde
Location : Nasik, Maharashtra.
"Recent unseasonal rains in Maharashtra’s Nashik district lashed the vineyards of Bhausaheb Salunke. The farm in 1 acres become a pool of water after sudden rain caused flash flood like situations” Bhausaheb Salunke remembers the days of Diwali , when he felt like river Godawari started flowing through his vineyards. He remembers seeing the iron stands to support the grape plants looked like electric poles in flooded village. It was a good year for the humble farmer who has spent about 1.5 lakhs on the farm that year and hoping for good returns. But recent unseasonal rains lashed his vineyards of 1 acres for 5-6 days and become a pool of water. Entire family got to work to save the farm. They used small water pumps to drain the water from farm. First the family thought the rain will stop next day but it didn’t and they realised they have to take matter in own hands if they want to save the crop. Bhausaheb’s wife Meena (62) and little grandchildren got drenched continuously for 4-5 days in order to repair and support the grape plants. Rain finally stopped on 6th day. The family managed to withstand the grape plants through the testing time. Even though they got the crop one month late but they could recover at least half of his seasonal crop. It’s a great success story in the village where many big farmers couldn’t save their season. “The man should have the fighting nature to face the natural calamities” Bhausaheb says as he walks in his vineyards on a sunny day with Sunlight piercing through the grapes making pattern of shadows on the soil he toiled for.
Participant Name : Sudipto Das
Location : Kolkata, West Bengal.
Shyamali Paul replaces a damaged LED bulb with a new one while Subhajit Jana looks a flower field at a Chrysanthemum flower cultivation farm int Pakuria, West Bengal. In Pakuria and Khirai farmers light up their fields with LED bulbs at night to get quality production of ornamental flower like Chrysanthemum. Here fellow flower growers shifted to a new innovative method of farming as they strung up rows of 9 Watt LED bulbs across their fields and kept these switched on from sunset till dawn for 7-10 days during the budding stage. The innovation of thousands of LED bulbs are switched on during the night to give the plants artificial, “day-like” light to compensate for its lack during the daytime cover-up. It was found the plants showed stunted growth when kept the lights on at night and the quality of his chrysanthemums was also very good. The process is by exposing the plant to a continuous phase of light even at dusk they are enhancing the process of photosynthesis, which means the plant cooks way more food than it can cook only from the sunlight it receives in the morning. With the process being repeated over a period of days, the plant gets engaged in cooking and storing the food and then when the lights are suddenly cut off, the plant grows at a very fast rate with enough nutrition for a good quality produce. During the process, the farmers need to maintain a perfect balance between the periods of light and darkness. Farmers are now getting bulk orders from Hyderabad and Bangalore and exporting chrysanthemums flowers to other countries. Three years back, their business was floundering, now suddenly things have changed on which more than 5000 farmers’ families are depending on Chrysanthemum flower cultivation.
Participant Name : Rajiv Kumar Solanki
Location : Delhi.
“Kunzang Chenma” a 42 yrs old farmer from Sheela Village in Padam region of Zanskar Valley, a sub district of Kargil district. Sheela is one of the remotest villages and least visited place (Coordinates:33.43176,76.89739) at an extreme height of 3600 meter from the sea level. This village has just 25-30 households. The only connectivity it has is from Kargil. This village is almost cut off from entire India in peak winters, December through May. It is here that that I reached in August 2019, exploring the Zanskar valley. Zanskar Valley is as adventurous as it is picturesque, giving heaps of pictures for any photographer. But as I was passing through this golden wheat field, the beaming smile of Kunzang Chenma held me. She invited me into her field, her home and shared her life details. Kunzang has six children, with the oldest child around twenty four years old and the youngest a three year old boy. She grows wheat, barley, peas, potato, cabbage and carrot in the 20 kanals of land that she owns along with her husband. She employs no labour in the field and does all the agricultural practices herself. In fact, she laughs, it is impossible to get labour in such a remote place. She smiles and proudly informs that she has one labour "a yak that ploughs the field"!! Kunzang can only plant her crops in summers as winters in Zanskar are too cold and harsh and the whole landscape is arid with little to no rainfall. The whole valley is cut off from the mainland due to heavy snowfall. Cold desert, I remember from my primary school geography. How little do we know about this Earth and it's people. I asked her, how much does she earn from her agricultural field. She laughs again at my ignorance and says I earn the food for whole year and that is all that is needed. I am left dumbfounded with her satisfaction in life with such precious little. Of all the memories that I brought back from Zanskar; her smile, grace and contentment in the harshest of climates in the world are somethings that I will hold dear for the rest of my life.
Paticipant Name : Yogiraj Kadam
Location : sangli, Maharashtra.
we have always imagined a farmer covered in mud, wrinkled face and dark complexion. But few days earlier i met Arun chavan from sangli district Maharashtra breaking all the stereotypes we have about farming. he is young and educated and inspite of moving abroad or working 9 to 5 job in multinational as all of his friends did, he decided to work in a farm and make living out of it.
someone so motivated to transform traditional agriculture practices to more scientific and modern solutions.
Participant Name : Rohan Joshi
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Garv hai mujhe mere iss kaap pe
Garv hai mujhe mere khethi ke samaan pe...
Participant Name : Kavin Roshan S
Location : Madurai, Tamil Nadu.
There are things you can see. Then there are things that you can't. Wonder what is my story What you see here is not just the grains going up and the chaff flying away. It is not just the other day ending. My story is about the things that you can't see here. But if you pause and imagine you get the picture. It is about long hours in the toiling sun. It is about the sweat I feel dripping down my face. It is about the dreams to feed the few by feeding many. It is about the far fetched faith we still believe on government. It is about the limitless hope and wait for a rescue from the helping hand. The helping hand that is handcuffed by pollution and global warming. It is more about the showers in our eyes for the showers of nature to shower the cover of earth. Waiting for rain, waiting for hope, waiting for a new dawn. Awaiting anxiously for the dusk of my fear,dawn of new hope. My story is about the journey, sacrifice and pain. I am last of my kind. Who will continue this legacy? The legacy of sweat, sacrifice and pain. Perhaps my son? Perhaps yours? Find someone.
Participant Name : Rajesh Dhar
Location : Kolkatta, West Bengal
For centuries rice has been an intrinsic part of India’s world-famous gastronomic culture. In India approximately 70 per cent of the populations are involved directly or indirectly in agriculture. As well as being one of the country’s leading food crops, India is also one of the biggest rice exporters.
In these years agriculture is becoming more and more uncertain due to flood in one season followed by drought in the next. The farmers are facing crop failures and thus losing their food security. The soil and water in the village has been degraded by years of chemical inputs. The increase in the cost of farming inputs and fuel, coupled with unpredictable weather patterns are leading many farmers to economic disaster resulting in high levels of suicide in the country.
For decades in the villages of West Bengal, conventional and mechanised rice farming had been dominated by expensive chemical fertilisers, seeds and other agricultural outputs produced by agribusinesses. The focus was to gain high yields.
Now days, in the Hardaha village of Bedberia region in West Bengal, a collective group of farmers are trying to change the pattern of cultivation by taking an initiative of natural farming. Farmers like Wasim Akram Laskar, Musharaf Ali Laskar, Mobarak Laskar and many others are cultivating rice in 25 acres of land of their village in an organic process. Their aim is to establish natural farming in the entire village. It is thus the natural transition from chemical inputs to organic cultivation for the betterment of the farmers .
Paricipant Name : Suman Kumar Giri
Location : Kolkatta, West Bengal
Mader Biswas is a farmer living in Gangapur, Duttapukur, West Bengal. In his 18 katha land he cultivate pea in winter. Riya Khatun is a little girl who is helping her grandmother for watering the pea plants. Marjina Bibi is her grandmother. Mader Biswas hire Marjina Bibi for working in his field. Total costing in his cultivation of 18 katha land is approx Rs. 7000/-. and he is expecting 500 kgs of pea from his cultivated area.
Paticipant Name : Vivek V
Location : Kottayam, Kerala
For every step my child wants to take, I want to pave the way
प्रतिभागी नाम : चेतन काशिनाथ राठोड
स्थल : औरंगाबाद, महाराष्ट्र.
तूच अन्नदाता, तूच रे मायबाप... किती रे कष्ट करतोस, लागत नाही का तुला धाप... होय तूच खरा शेतकरी...! . लखलखता सूर्य डोक्यावर असतो, तपलेल्या मातीला घामाने भिजवतो... कांदा अन भाकरी खातो, तसाच पिक निर्माण करतो... होय तूच खरा शेतकरी...! . असेल त्याच्या शरीरात काहीतरी, ज्याने त्याच्यात ऊर्जा निर्माण होते खरी... सगळे अन्नधान्य म्हटले खरी, पण ऊर्जा तीच जी तू निर्माण करी... होय तूच खरा शेतकरी...! . कर्जासाठी दार दार फिरतो, सावकारा कडून कर्ज काढतो... निसर्ग कधी कधी जाम कोपतो, पिकाची सर्व नासधुस करतो... परत तो कर्ज काढतो... होय तूच खरा शेतकरी...! . शासनही मदत करण्यास नकार देते, त्याला आत्महत्या करण्यास भाग पाडते... कधी तरी शासनाला मधेच जाग येते, एखाद्या पिकाला हमिभाव देते... सगळ सहन करणारा फक्त तूच, होय तूच खरा शेतकरी...!
Participant Name : Mihir Banerjee
Location : Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
Its 2:00 AM in the midnight all of a sudden you start feeling bed is floating on the floor and your roof spilling out the water drops and the very next moment your house surface start getting tilted because something is happening inside mother earth.
For the people of Bahraich district, located in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, floods had become almost a way of life. Each monsoon brought with it excessive flooding and misery for thousands located in one of India’s poorest states. With no disaster planning and mitigation systems in place, floodwaters would contaminate drinking water, damage sanitation facilities and submerge hand pumps. It had become an all too familiar cycle of misery.
Santram, a farmer of Bahraich district sitting just near to his land remembers what happened that day when he lost his land due to massive flood. An owner of 1.5 Bheegha land shares with tearful eyes that the day I lost my land, my family cried that now what will happen, how our family will survive because flood took our land as well as our house.
Santram sons’ were not able to study because he was not able to earn enough money and school was very far from the place where he currently stays. After flood he went to see his land but returned with no hope because it was all silver sand which is of no use.
Currently Santram works in different farm because he misses his land. He shared that when I had land, my whole family used to work together, my children also used to help me but now his whole family is scattered. His son lives outside Bahraich to earn money to feed family.
Santram in his words says ‘ Ab Ganga maiya ka pet pehle bhar jaye, unka bhare tab hum apna soche ki kaise guzara karna hai ‘
Santram shared that when he was small river was very far, it’s been 20 years that Ghaghra has affected many villages. Almost 9 Km land is of no use due to every year flood.
Santram misses his land but to be in connect with farming and his love for land, he at the age of 60, still works in other people land, he also work as daily wage labour in off season.
People like Santram have land certificates but they are landless because of the river is flowing over where they used to live.People had to move home three times in two decades due to floods and erosion
Like Santram, This is the situation of the farmers of Bahraich who lives near the river bank and they feel threatened that this year they will lose more of their land and their unbuilt home.
Story of Santram addresses the major issue of unpreparedness of disaster. With the vision of change I am sharing this story to farmdost. Highlighting such stories will surely be noticed by CSR, many farmer will may start farming and make their permanent home
Participant Name : Mehak Anees
Location : Nada grama, beltangadi, karnataka
Mr Prabhakar Mayya born and bought up in a small village of Nada grama, beltangadi, he has served in many fields of agriculture conservation products and has been awarded for the best conservation award and he’s been nominated as the member of the Chairman’s agricultural advisory committee. He has been conferred for more than 15 awards by the state and central government for the services he has rendered towards the conservation of the agricultural products.
Aspiring his education he was a teacher by profession and after serving as a teacher for a long time he came back to his village to cultivate his ancestral agricultural land.
One fine day it came to his mind that instead of being a teacher why shouldn’t I be agriculturalist in a country like India where agriculture is important and he thought of farming in his own land. Earlier paddy was grown in his land and he came with an innovative idea of multiple cropping system, along with his family members he converted the paddy fields into farming field which is giving a good result in cultivation of commercial as well as domestic farming. Today he is a successful farmer it not only gives him the satisfaction of farming but is giving him a lot of income to support his family and he always inspires the people to explore and promote the agricultural farming in our agricultural country. He is inspired to the advanced technology of farming as well.
Nowadays everyone wants to be either a doctor, engineer, businessmen, etc. but people like Prabhakar Mayya who are concerned about the soil of the land or indulged in the cultivation of farming. According to me he is really and true “son of the soil” of this country
Participant Name : Dimpy Gogoi
Location : Guwahati, Assam.
Mrinmoy jyoti Gogoi is from a very small place called Namti Hudupora in Assam at Sibsagar district. He has been working as a farmer from his teenage age. His father passed away in 2019 due to diabetes and after his father he has to look after his family because his mother is a house wife and having a family land they used to cultivate rice once in a every year so he is helping his family with the help of village farmers buy selling rice. He is now 20+ yrs and looking for also a job. Also he is studying ITI in Assam. This hard work should really get a appreciation for running his family.
Participant Name : Meenakshi Kathayat
Location : Pauri, Uttaranchal.
Being raised in one of the quaint town of Himalayan state, also hailed as “Devboomi” which means land of Gods, the magnificence of culture never fails to astound me. Recently I visited one of such village which although is not very much far from the fancy of mine, but now and then it reminds me of how the people away from all the hustles of life, of which I am also the part now, still lives in the most minimalistic way. The Khola village nestled regally in Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. On a bright day, I reached the village with no particular intent in my heart yet I was caught off guard by the effortlessness of it and thought to pen down something about it. It was a quaint house, the walls of it was made of stones and rather mud but standing strong. The roof a bit slant having carved stones and some mud out of which some grass was creeping heedlessly. As I was marveling the otherworldly dwelling, which was actually one of the many in village. I enquired from one of the women folks about life and livelihood of the place out of curiosity. Her name was Rajkumari Doriyal, aged 31. Her husband, Rakesh was a tough native with a calloused skin showing the sign of rough life and hardships, which is not uncommon to such place. He did not hold regular job but mostly engaged in chores of home and mostly farm work in small piece of owned land. Rajkumari however takes a toll of it valiantly, and serves as the backbone of family, breaking the stereotypes by sustaining the family. They grow ample amount of pulses like masoor, gehat, soyabean, sem, along with mustard, wheat, rice, mandua and vegetables like potatoes, onion, green vegetables. The irrigation is dependent on rain, however water is also fetched from river streams and brooks along with domestic tap. Wild animals like boars and monkeys do much havoc to the farming. The livestock provides milk along with meat and eggs mainly for self-consumption. Cow dung cakes along with firewood are used as fuel and the animals are engaged in ploughing. The couple has two children named Amisha and Abhishek, both study in the Prathamik Vidyalaya. Later the mother of two told that she also works as bhojan-mata in junior school. She was gentle looking but her composure was strong and I was not surprised that she single-handedly knocked down adversities of such harsh place not just by being ‘woman of the house’ but much beyond! Life was difficult but not deprived for them, as they seem contended in what they have. Meanwhile, amidst all such conversation, time flew and reluctantly I had to bid farewell with my newly made friends. However, I did not forget to take pictures and videos just to preserve the glimpses of what I might long for in the hectic world of mine!
Participant Name : Ankita
Location : New Delhi, Delhi.
Tossing away 65 just like another number on the scale, she literally sprints in the mountain terrain, effortlessly walking through the fields, working tirelessly with an enigmatic smile on her face. She always has a stick in her hand. But wait, that stick has no function of providing support to walk. Instead she uses it just to scare away the wild animals and point direction to lost wanderers. There’s a pantha system in the village, which includes the work of distributing water to every field equally . And this job is done by this jovial lady who walks to the length and breadth of the village to ensure that every field gets water as per the need. In a way she’s been nurturing everyone’s field since ages by her work as the Pantha head. When asked about her involvement in agriculture, she says she has always been working in the fields as far she remembers. Her ideology is that it’s her karma to work in the fields and remain attached to the earth. She says, the earth gives us so much that we will always remain indebted. There’s no way to repay what Mother Earth does for us. She wakes up at 6 in the morning and is off to the fields to work by 7. She works under the Padyali system, which is barter of labor and involves working in each other’s fields. If not spotted in the fields she will be found in her house, never sitting idle. Either she will be found preparing meals for herself or drying the harvest. She gets money and part of the harvest from the people, in barter of taking care of the water distribution to their fields. And that’s her only source of livelihood. Her daughters had to leave eventually after marriage, so now she lives alone. She’ll never allow anyone to go empty stomach from her house. Having such a welcoming, warm and humble demeanor, when somebody meets this gracious lady, forgetting her is next to impossible. Imprinting lives of many, fetching respect from all and eventually becoming the revered grandmom for every village member. That’s Saraswati Devi.
प्रतिभागी नाम : चेतन काशिनाथ राठोड
स्थल : औरंगाबाद, महाराष्ट्र.
हातात शेती नाही आमच्या पण मित्र शेतकऱ्याचे, मजूरी करुनी पोट भरीतो काम आमचे कष्टाचे... . . उन्हा तान्हात राबतो आम्ही तरी असते चेहऱ्यावर हसून, नका तुम्ही काळजी करु, दोन घास खातो सोबत बसून... . . नका दाखवू आम्हा तुमच्या श्रीमंतीचा जोर, अशे तशे समजू नका आम्हा आहोत मनाने कठोर... . . गरीबीच्या या जाळ्यात लहानाचे मोठे झालो, शेतकऱ्याच्या मदतीस वेळोवेळी धावूनी आलो... . . मान आहे मोठा आमचा सदैव ठेवा आठवण, आम्ही तुमचे मजदूर द्या मोबदला मोजुन...
Participant Name : Faisal Khan
Location : Kota, Rajasthan.
Happy to have crop.
Participant Name : Shubham Paliwal
Location : Madhya Pradesh
Shubham Bhusare is a 24 year old farmer from Kelapur Betul (Madhya Pradesh). he has completed his education in polytechnic from Bhopal and worked as a mechanic in B.H.E.L Bhopal for 1 year in train engine manufacturing department. After staying away from his birth place for sometime he decided to quit the job and go back to his village to help his father in farming. He has been working as a farmer from last 2 years and has been encouraging the youth of his town to join agriculture as their main profession. He wanted to become a successful farmer to encourage new generation people to show them the potential growth that agriculture holds in future with the help of government schemes. he says "Agriculture has been an essential part of Indian life since the foundation of our country. However, many people do not realize that many aspects of human life depend on the numerous types of agriculture." "I visited many farms where improved technology of farming was being used and then I started collecting and reading the literature based on it. after getting sufficient knowledge i implemented every step in my work and that really paid off me in my last 2 years of farming."
Participant Name : Satya Prakash Singh
Location : Bhabhua, Bihar.
Farming is a profession of hope. He is Dilip, a farmer from a small village of Mirzapur. His place is a hilly area where the lands are hard to cultivate since the land is full of stones. But as it is said, "work on what you want and don't word on what you don't have". Dilip perfectly fits to saying because when the land of his father was divided into 2 sons he got this small piece of land for agriculture and happily accepted it as he accepted his life hurdles. The land grows fewer crops, the cultivation is hard because of rocks but with hard work and patience, Dilip is somehow managing to feed his wife and a daughter. Since agriculture is seasonal employment and income is seasonal too. Dilip also goes to the nearest city and work as labour in a factory as well. As rightly said by Henri Alain, "the farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days." With the same lessons for life, Deelip is patiently waiting for the time when his hard work will pay off. He want to make a concrete house for his family as right now they have a mud house. He also dreams for his daughter a good education and marriage. His life is the same as his land. Full of hurdles like stones but hard work and patience of dilip makes him hope for the growth of saplings in his land as well as in his dreams.
Participant Name : Subrata Das
Location : Kolkata, West Bengal.
Khirai, the flower valley of West Bengal. Here various flowers including marigold is cultivated in wide spread area. Farmers cultivate the flowers. They harvest then and when properly bloomed the flowers are picked, packed and taken to flower market in and around Kolkata.
Participant Name : Pankaj Ravindra Kharatmal
Location : Jalna, Maharashtra.
Two days ago there was raining at some places in marathwada region in maharashtra. Three months ago, Ashok jadhav has sowed wheat crop likely to harvest within 15 days. His brother in law mohan mulakh explaining him weather forecasting data on his laptop. Hopefully there is no sign of raining. He is expecting satisfactory income for his hard work and investment. This photos portrays internet aid communication
Participant Name : Nirmal
Location : Chengalpattu, Tamil Nadu.
The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. Every farmers life raises like the sun.
Participant Name : Suthanthirasith
Location : Mannargudi, Tamil Nadu.
Farming is the most important industry in the world , and it is The farmers who nature and product them , farming With Pleasure, Rice cultivation Is a food staple.
Participant Name : Sampad Biswas
Location : Kolkata, West Bengal.
A Journey From Hotel Management Professional to a successful farmer. We all have a story to tell but those who not only think differently but make that happen in their lives become a true inspiring story which paves the way for others to follow. Here I am relating a story of a farmer whose name is Rowshan Habib Mollah He lives in a village named Padmamala which is located in the district of Nadia, West Bengal, 150 km away from Kolkata. He belongs to a conventional farmer family. But he wanted to do something else other than farming. That is why after passing 12th standard from a Bengali Medium School he pursued hotel management and went to a Middle East country for work. After doing service for few years he came back and started a business which did not satisfy him. While doing business he was Still in search for something else which would give him good earning, security and appreciation. Then after a long search and survey gradually he could realise that it was farming but not conventional and prevailing farming in his area, which could give him what he wanted. And suddenly, one day he came to know about 'Dragon Fruit'. He discussed it with a local agriculture officer and instantly took decision to go for it. After that there is no looking back. He planted 624 sapling in his 15 cottah plot of land using 156 cement pillars (4"×3"×6'5") which are set in the ground maintaining certain distance. Four saplings are planted against one pillar. Saplings and cement pillars both costed him around 70,000 to 75,000. Superficially it seems to be expensive at first but the fact is these plants remain alive for 60 years and give fruit to the full swing for at least 20 to 25 years. And its maintenance cost is very low. Another most important fact is that one can grow vegetables simultaneously which give the farmer his maintenance cost. He got fruit just after one year. First year he earned 60000 selling at local market. This year he is hoping 2 lacs to 2.5 lacs. The earning will increase every year upto 5 - 6 years and after 6 years go on giving fruit the same way as the six years upto 20 years. Each pillar gives 10 to 15 kg fruit in a year. Now he realises that he is a successful, secured and happy farmer because other farmers who expressed their deep doubt or made fun of him are coming these days to seek help.
Participant Name : Vishal V Gudulkar
Location : India
Babu Kamble, owns two bullocks from last 4-5 years, and they are very helpful in his farming
activities. Both are of great stature, beautiful to behold, and diligent at their labours. The
two bullocks lives together from very long time with their owner, and they shares special
kind of bond and attachment. Face to face or side by side they would hold discussions in
their silent language. There is some kind of mysterious love and power, they understands
each other very well.
Participant Name : G. Rishikesavan
Location : Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
When I turned my eye ON and set across 360degree Field of view, a black pearl was spotted out in Auto Focus(AF) as it shone at the ridge of a brown field in the late afternoon of a clear sunny day. Yes, with music in background, here we go for my hero's introduction. A beautiful landscape had a wonderful creature at his 63rd age in it. When I neared him hesitantly, he suspiciously threw a gaze at me when I entered into the harvested golden colour field with Camera. Then I explained my purpose of being there to make him comfortable. After then, a poetic conversation went between us in collaboration with humming birds which commuted back to their home(nests). When I asked about his family, he gathered all the happiness in his sparkling eyes and kept smile in the face all the time. The love for his life-partner was still green regardless the season they went through. His whole world was compacted in 2 acres of field, a newly built little castle near to his office(field), a most-caring family, 4 goats and a cow. His zest towards his business(agriculture) equally competed with his partner. Though, he never gripped off both of them from his hands. I loved his smile as he drew his lips to touch the ears. At the instance, his face became like stone thrown in water. When the wrinkles told his age, the strong body depicted his hard work done for 50years. I don’t think he’d never done his schooling as he told. Because, I exclaimed when I saw his managerial skills on his field’s cultivation techniques. He never left his field idle, rather, he changed crops to cultivate for adapting with the situations. For example, in this season, after harvesting rice, he used to go with cotton and sesame in series. Thus, he serves tirelessly to save the world. There was no profitability in his thoughts, instead, humanity headed in front. In the relay race, he carries the stick in his period and runs where his parents and grannies left. At somewhere in the conversation, his eyes went fiery and here and then it showed sadness for the hurdles caused by nature and human politics. I can remember his intriguing statement, that “we change governments at every single time, but they never changed our life at its least possibility. We’re their trump cards”. When they could not fight with visible oppositions, how could they defend unanticipated ones. Yes, I meant the natural calamities. Few minutes later, he collected his consciousness when the falling sun did face-mask on his face. And then, again wrinkles started their evening show after some break. Now, he told humorously how he did fights with rats, snakes, foxes, etc., His determination and perseverance, even at this age, were demonstrated by his strong body structure and packs in his Abs. Throughout the soulful conversation, I’ve bagged full of positivity from him that I’ve never experienced before. Thank you and Vanakkam in style
Participant Name : Divesh Nainani
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Mr. Bandu Ballu Pondekar (age 28 yrs) is from Kalyan, Murbad Road, Titwala Chowk, Thane district of Maharashtra state. He is a true depiction of our motherland, India. Just like our motherland keeps loving & nurturing us children without expecting anything in return, likewise this farmer has been nurturing his farm with extensive hardwork and dedication. Though he has been facing so many difficulties and his struggles are indeed painful but still his love for his motherland keeps him going. Bandu Ballu Pondekar's farms were washed off due to heavy rains & floods. His struggle did not end here, his 17 buffaloes & 16 cows died during these floods. Anyone like you & me would have lost our hope & would have left farming after facing such loss & failure. But this man is the man who believes that just like his ancestors even he is born to do the best for his motherland. He puts in his sweat, soul & blood to nourish his farms which in turn nourishes us who don't even know him in person. The Man, Mr. Bandu Ballu Pondekar who steps ahead, faces so many hardships but never gives up his love & responsibility. We indeed should not trivialize the efforts that farmers put in & sacrifices they make for we, the country people. These are the real heroes who deserve so much more respect love & appreciation.
Participant Name: Nanao Meetei
Location: Nagaland
Farmer details awaited
Saw this fisherman in Manipur, Loktak Lake which is the only floating lake in the world. He got so much skilled in fishing from this small boat which he earns money and look after the family. Photo shot in mobile camera.
Participant Name: Vinnu Vinay
Location: India
Farmer details awaited
Farmers are the backbone of our society. They are the ones who provide us all the food that we eat. As a result, the entire population of the country depends upon farmers. Be it the smallest or the largest country. Because of them only we are able to live on the planet. Thus Farmers are the most important people in the world. Though farmers have so much importance still they do not have proper living. Farmers have great importance in our society. They are the ones who provide us food to eat. Since every person needs proper food for their living, so they are a necessity in society. There are different types of farmers. And they all have equal significance. First are the farmers who grow a crop like wheat, barley, rice, etc. Since the maximum intake in the Indian houses is of wheat and rice. So, the cultivation of wheat and rice is much in farming. Moreover, farmers who grow these crops are of prime importance. Second, are the ones who cultivate fruits. These farmers have to prepare the soil for different types of fruits. Because these fruits grow according to the season. Therefore the farmers need to have a great knowledge of fruits and crops. There are many other farmers who grow different other types. Furthermore, they all have to work very hard to get maximum harvesting.
In addition to the farmers contribute almost 17% of the Indian economy. That is the maximum of all. But still, a farmer is deprived of every luxury of society (they are real heroes not reel heroes)
Name : Akshay Y R
Place : Mysore, Karnataka
Years etched on the face With a smile on the face Eyes sparkling with bliss A farmer, works with grace
Participant Name : Nivedha B
Location : Tirupur, Tamil Nadu.
MRS.S.PRIYANKA is an Under graduate in optometry and from Thondamuthur, Coimbatore district .She belongs to an agriculture family ,where her parents by doing agriculture, they made her wish to study health science(BSC OPTOMETRY).Although her wish is to study health science she don’t want to leave agriculture and has more interest in doing agriculture. She worked as an optometrist for 1 year and done higher studies .After that she got married to an agriculture family, but her husband was also working in private company .She said her interest to her husband about agriculture, where her husband also had a more passion in agriculture. They both started to do agriculture in current scenario where many farmers feel agriculture is not an profitable one. As their parents are not allowing to do agriculture ,they both themselves took 2 acre land for lease and cultivating brinjal, cabbage ,cauliflower ,ladysfinger ,beetroot and so for last 10months.And according to last 10 months result of production is too good.As she said in world all knows India is an agriculture country, and asked all young Indians not to forget agriculture and come forward to do agriculture. She was the most inspiring for all young peoples to do agriculture,as its an an profitable one if we do in an proper way.
Participant Name : Aswin S
Location : Kozhikode, Kerala.
Unexpectedly I spent the last new year out of the common way by visiting a farmer in northern district of Kerala. Cheruvayal Raman or Ramettan, as he is often called, is a tribal farmer who has rich lineage of tribal farming tradition. He belongs to the Kurichya community of Wayanad. The kurichiyas are basically farmers who follow long established traditions and customs. I was extremely surprised to know that Raman was the Indian representative at the Belem Ethnobiology summit happened in Brazil in the year 2018. I couldn't believe it when he said that his house, built on bamboo structure, was more than a century old. Cheruvayal Raman was much more than a mere farmer. He was the savior of many rare and endangered seed varieties which are indegenous to Wayanad. Even though he had received many awards and recognitions, I felt the need to make a short film about this unsung hero
Participant Name : Ravandeep
Location : Mudki, Punjab
This guy you see sitting on sacks of wheat is Nirmal Singh.He does farming of wheat & rice throughout the year. Farming is the only source of his income. Nowadays farming is more dependent on synthetic fertilizer. It cost a lot of money from sowing to harvesting of crops . Sometimes his crop get ruined because of harsh weather conditions. It turns out low income or no income for the family Shortage of income compels the farmer to borrow money from bank Which leaves him in a debt.Debt with high interest takes long time to get paid off. Farmer get stressed out under the burden of debt which leads him to commit suicide.
Participant Name : Amish Jain.
Location : Udaipur, Rajasthan.
This is the story of a farmer who opted for farming out of necessity. This is the story of Mangil lal ji singhawat who was born in Menar village. From early childhood he was attracted towards academics and decided to make his career in academics only. As it is said that life has different plans for everybody. Mangilal ji’s father died when he was just 20 years old. So he has to quit his studies to work for the betterment of family. They had a tractor loan on their head and he was the sole breadwinner for the family. So he had to opt for farming to make both ends meet. He didn’t had any knowledge of farming but he decided to learn everything to give his family a better life. from various sources he learnt various techniques of farming and irrigation. He not only learnt himself about new techniques but also taught other people in village also. He was the first person in his village to use Drip Irrigation System. There wasn’t any problem of water scarcity but due to presence of lakes there was a constant problem of flooding of lakes , he along with other people of village actively contributed in making a guide wall There were power cuts in the region and due to irregular electricity pattern , irrigation became tough and people had to work at night , exposing them to risk of snakes scorpion . To solve this problem he learnt about solar technology and applied this technique to his farms. He installed solar pumps in the farms. He is a man of guts who is not afraid of trying different things. He has cultivated various fruits in his farms but incurred huge losses due to constant attacks by blue bull and other animals ,But backing off was never an option , he again cultivated lemons and guava and earned good profit in it. Seeing his knowledge for crops , an agriculture company had chosen him for cultivation of hybrid maize through thier special seeds . He also cultivated high quality of poppy seeds in the farms because of which he was elected as the head of the village for growing poppy seeds . And since his election as head , he tries to update farmers about morphine laws and constantly checks there farm to curb illegal activity . Even though he is a Upsarpanch of village and owns a labour force but he still works in his farm like a labourer. He has decided to fulfill his social responsibilty. He give regular donations in government schools. He has given education a important place in his family . All his family members are highly educated. He has done various works of development for village. He has built a Guide wall, in the village and has deviced various technologies for protection of crops from animals. He has made it a point to educate all the children of his labourforce and constantly involved in providing them good and better life. He is the man who has shown how to create a good life for himself and the society.
Participant Name : Sahil Tanwar
Location : Naraina, Delhi.
Randhir singh , who's a middle class farmer, and loves to do farming as well, tells about his struggles in his life , but instead of all this, he gives a message to all that a person can't be dishonest with his work , problems may occur , financially or physically but you have to stand strong against it.
Participant Name : Anmol Karnik
Location : Maharashtra.
To My Father & To Our Farmers tells the story of Rajesh Shankar Balange, the son of a proud farmer, Shankar Balange. The video explores a son’s gratitude towards his Father’s life long mission - his work ethic, routine and passion for farming and to all the farmers across the country for their assiduous efforts to keep the nation moving.
Participant Name : Akshay Jain
Location : Udaipur, Rajasthan.
This is a remarkable story about an simple shepherd woman whose fight back itself makes this story worth telling. This woman coming from a backward community from a small village of alsigarh and being illiterate , belonged to a poor shepherd family who owned no land.Their main source of livelihood was shepherding goats and selling wood. Right from her childhood she had seen poverty in its worst form. She got married to a peasant in a poor family. But, the change in her family did not change her fortune. To make there ends meet, her family apart from farming also had to cut junglewood and sell it. Women in the village were not allowed to work on farms so she used to do only household works. But she had a zeal to make her life better. Even being illiterate she decided to join ''krishi vigyan kendra' to learn about techniques of irrigation and farming to help her husband in farming . Whatever she had learnt she applied to her farms and this showed the results but still the income was less , so she decided to do something else in farming . Her will power was supported by an NGO named 'sewa mandir'. In 'sewa mandir' she learnt about floriculture and flower farming . This was a new concept which no one in there village knew about . She not only learnt herself but taught it to other women also. Floriculture helped her in becoming self sufficient. She is the first lady from her village who came out of house & worked on farms. Alsigarh is situated in a hilly area and has a severe water scarcity problem. Her endeavour led to a lot of woman following her example and becoming self dependent , and increased ways of earning thereby increasing their family income. Her constant zeal to learn about new techniques took her to various workshops about farming in other villages and cities . She not only restricted herself to agriculture but towards health and sanitation also. She is actively involved in health care of women during pregnancy. She also educates villagers about various government scheme Apart from that today she is “Ward Panch” of her village. She is the leader of20 self help groups. She is actively involved in delivery of babies in hospitals in the village Her late acquired understand of importance of literacy led to her educating her three sons who presently are all well settled and one among them has even become 'up-sarpanch' and had been constantly involved in upliftment of village. It is a story of a fight back of hundereds of woman from villages who despite there all short comings never gave up. Bhurki bai’s name is and will always be remembered as that of a spirited lady who with her indomitable will power and desire to contribute to her family not only uplifted her family but also the whole village.
Participant Name : Sharad Iragonda Patil
Location : Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
There are modern improvements in Indian agriculture.like there standard of living of the farmer and the road which are go towards farm are improved, but still the farmer emphasizes the old tools like anchor for agricultural works.
Participant Name : Dev Panwar
Location : Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh
ये किसान हैं रघुवीर सिंह पंवार, जो स्नातक की पढ़ाई पूरी करके अपनी खेती के कार्यों में जुट गए। रघुवीर सिंह जी हमेशा अनूठी तरकीबों से अपनी खेती के कार्यों को थोड़ा सरल और सुलभ बना लेते हैं। इस बार उन्होंने एक पाइप तैयार किया है, जिसका उपयोग उनके साथ-साथ आस-पास के बहुत से किसान कर रहे हैं। बहुत ही कम लागत और कम मेहनत में रघुवीर सिंह जी ने यह पाइप बनाया।
जब किसान सिंचाई करता है, तो खेतों में बहुत सारी क्यारियाँ होती हैं, जिनमें पानी छोड़ना पड़ता है। इससे फसल पानी पीती है। जब पानी अंदर छोड़ने के लिए बार-बार क्यारियों को फोड़ना पड़ता है, तो फसल को भी नुकसान होता है। इस प्रकार, बार-बार क्यारियों को फोड़ने और बांधने में किसान को बहुत मेहनत करना पड़ती है। कभी-कभी कड़ाके की ठण्ड में भी क्यारियों को बांधना और फोड़ना पड़ता है। इसका कोई निश्चित समय नहीं है।
इसी को देखते हुए किसान रघुवीर सिंह जी ने ऐसा पाइप बनाया, जिससे किसान को क्यारियाँ फोड़ना और बांधना नहीं पड़ती हैं। इसमें उन्होंने हर 8 फिट पर कुछ वाल्व लगाए हैं, जिन्हें आसानी से खोला और बंद किया जा सकता है और क्यारियों में पानी छोड़ा जा सकता है, जिससे किसान को रात में पानी में उतरने की आवश्यकता नहीं होती, और न ही कोई नुकसान होता है, साथ ही ज्यादा मेहनत भी नहीं लगती है।
रघुवीर सिंह जी ने यह पाइप अपने घर पर बनाया और दूसरे बहुत सारे किसानों को भी बनाकर दिया, जिससे उन किसानों को बहुत फायदा हुआ। जब इस पाइप का पता लोकल न्यूज़ पेपर को लगा, तो उसने रघुवीर सिंह जी के खेत पर आकर उनका इंटरव्यू लिया और उनके फोटो के साथ लेख प्रकाशित किया।
बड़नगर (उज्जैन). खेती किसानी को आसान बनाने के लिए बहुत सी आधुनिक मशीनें व उपकरण बाजार में आ गए हैं, लेकिन उनको छोड़ बड़नगर तहसील के ग्राम पल्दुना के एक किसान ने खेतों में उपज में पानी देने के लिए एक ऐसा जुगाड़ पाइप तैयार किया है जिससे वह कम समय में अधिक काम, अच्छा उत्पादन एवं अधिक मुनाफा कमा रहे हैं।
तहसील के ग्राम पल्टुना के किसान रघुविरसिंह (42) पिता सज्जनसिंह पंवार ने खेतों में उपज को पानी देने के लिए एक 200 फीट का पाइप तैयार किया है। इसमें किसान ने 6-6 फीट की दूरी पर छोटे हेडऑप्टर लगाए। किसान इस पाइप से एक साथ 6 पाटियों में उपज को पानी दे रहा है। इसे तैयार करने में किसान को मात्र 5250 रुपए खर्च हुए।
किसान पंवार ने बताया वह स्नातक है और 20 वर्षों से खेती कर रहा है। उसके पास पल्दुना में 20 बीघा जमीन है। इसमें दो वर्षों से इस जुगाड़ के पाइप से ही खेत से कर रहा हूँ। पाइप से खेत में पानी देने में क्यारिया संभालने की जरूरत नहीं होती। रात के समय बार-बार उठकर पानी देखने की जरूरत नहीं। क्यारियों में बार बार पाइप बदलने की बचत, पानी स्पीड से नहीं जाकर धीमी गति से जाता है और सभी क्यारियों में फसलों को एक जैसा पानी मिलता है। खेतों की मिट्टी बहकर नहीं जाती। समय मजदूर, पावड़े की भी जरूरत नहीं होती।
Participant Name : Nelson Coutinho
Location : Maharashtra.
Namaste!! I am Shahji Pawar,
I am farmer . I am from Dudulgaon Moshi, Pune Pimpri Chinchwad.
I grow onion, groundnut Garlic.
Participant Name : Harshal Kadam
Location : Kalyan, Maharashtra.
This is a story of a farmer who had proved to the society that no farming is impossible .This is a story of a lady who is maintaining her farms as good as any other male farmer . This is a story of lady who has done a agriculture which is difficult for most of the other farmers and avoided by them. Mangala Pradeep Vartak is an inspiration for many lady farmers in the country who choose agriculture . She has been successful in her agriculture and has continued the tradition of her family by choosing agriculture . Mangala lives in a village named Revale in palghar district ,140 km from Mumbai City (Maharashtra). The village is famous for its farms of banana and betel leaves. She has been cultivating betel leaves since her childhood . Mangala was always into agriculture since her childhood her Parents also had Betel Leaves farms at her house. She used to enter the farm and Mimick her parents working in the farm. Slowly she started getting attracted towards farms specially betel leaves. She completed her 10th in the village school and then completed her graduation in arts as well. In her teens she used to sell gajra (jasmine flower garlands) .She used to help her parents in farm .Later she got married at a young age to Pradeep Vartak in Revale ,Palghar. Her husband was also a agriculture lover but did not choose agriculture and serviced in TATA steel. After marriage Mangala decided to start the business of Betel leaves and the journey of success and her passion begin. Being enthusiastic she started growing betel leaves in small area , Slowly the business started growing a lot, her care and support cultivated a export quality leaved which were exported to the neighboring Pakistan . The Farm got bigger and yeild started to increase . Not only betel leaves but she started brinjals , chilli, banana, colocassia leaves, dates, coconut, marigold,etc to grow on smaller scale. Her 5 acre betel leaves farms yeild about 15-20 thousand leaves of small and large size total. The leaves are now transported to Rajkot(Gujrat) . Also other fruits and vegetables are sold in market. She spents her most of the time in the farm which she calls (Wadi) which is 12-15 acre in total which had various crops. With new technology she has developed her farms. Labours are also imployed and given the labour charge daily . She has proved that even being a lady she has maintained her vast farms as perfect as should be. She has made her agriculture successful facing and tackling all the problem without any fear . Her husbands support has also helped her to grow her passion. Her both sons are well educated engineers and doing job in Mumbai . She has donated her entire life to her farms and agriculture . This was the inspiring story of Mangala Pradeep Vartak.
Paticipant Name : Hariom Mehta
Location : Gujarat, India
PADMA SHRI Vallabhbhai Vasrambhai Marvaniya who Introduced Carrots to Gujarat in 1943. Vallabhbhai had to leave his education after class 5 to help his father in his -acre farm where pulses, grains and groundnut were grown to sell,and maize, jowar, rajko (a kind of grass meant for fodder) and carrot was grown to feed the cattle. No one in Gujarat knew back then that these grains and vegetables could also be consumed by humans. However, while feeding the fodder to the cattle, once Vallabhbhai also tried some carrot and found it very tasty. He then suggested to his father that they should sell the surplus carrot in their farm. But his father found this idea very funny as carrot was only considered fodder for cattle back then and he ignored Vallabhbhai’s suggestion. But Vallabhbhai was so sure about this that he himself dug out the carrots and to and took them to the market to sell.He took two gathri (sacks) of carrots to the market and asked one of his regular customers to taste it. The customer loved the taste and bought it, which was almost 5kg, for Rs 4. Vallabhbhai earned Rs 8 from his first lot of carrots. “Those days, even 50 paise was too much money for us. My father was surprised to see an extra Rs 8 when I handed over the day’s earnings. When I told him that this is the money earned by selling carrot, he could not believe it. After this, his father supported him to grow and sell carrot. People would also approach them to buy this new vegetable that they had only heard of. A vegetable that was sweet, strong and could even be eaten raw? People loved it! However, a few complained about the branches that had to be cleaned before consuming the carrot. Then he started working on reducing these branches so that the vegetable grew straight into the soil. He applied various methods of sowing and watering to achieve this goal. He would also extract the carrots carefully from the soil to keep the shape intact. In the coming years, he also adopted drip irrigation and mulching methods in his farm and slowly expanded his farms from 4 acres to 40acres. Vallabhbhai then thought of growing the seeds of his variety of carrots and started distributing them to other farmers. He selected best plants for seed production and grew them in a small area. With time, the demand for the seeds also increased. And so, by 1985 he started growing seeds on large scale and named the variety as Madhuvan Gajar. “When we planted the carrot seeds all over and it started flowering there were lakhs of honey-bees visiting our farm, so my father named the variety Madhuvan,” says Arvindbhai, Vallabhbhai’s son. The average yield of Maduvan Gajar is 40-50 tonnes/hectare and is cultivated in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Rajasthan successfully. Vallabhhai has received various awards and recognition for development and promotion of Madhuvan Gajar carrot variety
Participant Name : Sharad Iragonda Patil
Location : Kolhapur, Maharashtra.
This photo is symbol of our agreecltural india. This old leady and her husband truley represent our india with their hard work. Really the old people are inspection for our youth.
Participant Name : Darshan Acharya
Location : Pune, Maharashtra.
Pockets in the city are being developed at fast pace, one such pocket in the city of Pune called Tathwade is being developed into a concrete jungle. Where many farmers have sold their land to builders, there is one such farmer who is not following this trend and has preserved his tradition of farming passed to him from his ancestors. His name is Madhukar Borge and he lives with his three sons and their families, together they do farming.
He has total 12 Acres of farming land in which he cultivates Rice, Wheat, Jowar, Onions and some vegetables. All his crops are grown in organic fashion, he does not use any fertilizers and pesticides. To enhance the fertility of the soil and increase the yield he uses cow dung. He has a cattle shed which consists of 6 cows and 1 buffalo, this also allows him to venture into the dairy business.
Though he has a dairy business, one of his son is working in an establishment and being a nature lover he wants to preserve this age old tradition so that his future generation has some source of income as a security measure and in this way he can also contribute to building a green society instead of a concrete one
Participant Name: Vinnu Vinay
Location: India
Farmer details awaited
Farmers are the backbone of our society. They are the ones who provide us all the food that we eat. As a result, the entire population of the country depends upon farmers. Be it the smallest or the largest country. Because of them only we are able to live on the planet. Thus Farmers are the most important people in the world. Though farmers have so much importance still they do not have proper living. Farmers have great importance in our society. They are the ones who provide us food to eat. Since every person needs proper food for their living, so they are a necessity in society. There are different types of farmers. And they all have equal significance. First are the farmers who grow a crop like wheat, barley, rice, etc. Since the maximum intake in the Indian houses is of wheat and rice. So, the cultivation of wheat and rice is much in farming. Moreover, farmers who grow these crops are of prime importance. Second, are the ones who cultivate fruits. These farmers have to prepare the soil for different types of fruits. Because these fruits grow according to the season. Therefore the farmers need to have a great knowledge of fruits and crops. There are many other farmers who grow different other types. Furthermore, they all have to work very hard to get maximum harvesting.
In addition to the farmers contribute almost 17% of the Indian economy. That is the maximum of all. But still, a farmer is deprived of every luxury of society (they are real heroes not reel heroes)
Participant Name : Praveen Semwal
Location : Dehradun, Uttaranchal.
Diwakar is from Purola village and he is pursuing his graduation in engineering from "Govind Ballabh Pant institute of engineering and technology". When he was in 2nd year of his college then suddenly his sister quit her job which she was doing in Dehradun. His sister was not satisfied with the routine and salary of the 9 to 5 job. Diwakar then came up with the idea of doing something for his family and started learning how to grow Mushroom. With all his will and hardwork he managed to get the proper training and learned how to market his product,Mushroom. It has been 3 years and Diwakar with his family is earning good. He has done some research and have decided to work on other more new Himalayan crops which are less known but high on demand in markets. He has trained many people how to grow Mushroom and how to earn their livelihood. Diwakar has not only made his sister again earning woman but also many youngsters like his sister who are migrating from villages for earnings. He attends many bootcamps and pitch his idea of how one can connect farming with business. Diwakar firmly beliefs that " one just need to connect the dots". He presented his idea of growing Himalayan crops and connecting them with right business strategies in Startup Uttarakhand Grand Challenge 2020 and won the prize.
Participant Name : Ayush Gupta
Location : Mumbai, Maharashtra.
This unique approach for farming involves multi-cropping. Peanut,coriander and peanut millet(Baajra) are three types of crops growing different types of crops in a single land. The amount of peanut,coriander grown is sufficient for the farmily as well as for selling too. He is been in the field of farming grow the very beginning since his childhood. He says that this land is everything for him "LIVE HERE I WORK HER" are the words he said when i asked him about the no. of years he contributed in the field of farming. He also had a plant nursery.He took us to the nursery where rose were grown. The roses were grown.The roses were red and in a good condition. Along with roses,green chilies were also grown in the plant nursery.He said that growing rose the soil should be loose and have good drainage. Growing roses is a difficult task indeed as it requires a lot of care and perfection. Watering the roses frequently and providing the amount of sunlight sufficient for it. It was an bonus to meet such an humble and down to earth person who has devoted his life
Participant Name : Drishti Magan
Location : India
Magan Ahir is a farmer in Bhuj district of Kutch. He has a farm of about 10 acres. Initially he used to do chemical farming like many other farmers. But after attending a training he realised the issue of climate change. Moreover Kutch being a rain fed area, he understood that the chemical method of farming is not sustainable. He thus started experimenting with organic farming. He practised mixed farming to ensure that the necessary nitrogen fixation is provided by leguminous plants and there is no requirement for urea. For the last 10 years he has started using traditional seeds. He not only uses traditional seeds but have started ensuring genetic purity of seeds through character mapping. This way he has not only improved his yeild but also ensured that there is less crop failure and low input crop. Amongst his other innovations, he has a compost pit which ensures that he can use only organic manure and does not need any external fertilisers. he has also planted crops which ensures that various insects and birds come to feed on them. These in turn helping in eating the pests and works as a natural pesticide. Magan Bhai is truly a role model for farmers